RT Article
T1 Theistic Naturalism and “Special” Divine Providence
JF Zygon
VO 44
IS 3
SP 533
OP 542
A1 Knight, Christopher 1952-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2009
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827960914
AB Abstract. Although naturalistic perspectives are an important component of their accounts of divine action, most participants in the current dialogue between science and theology eschew a purely naturalistic model. They believe that certain events of divine providence require a special mode of divine action, over and above that inherent in naturalistic processes. The analogy of human providential action suggests, however, that a strong theistic naturalism can account for these events. This model does not depend on a particular notion of God's relationship to time and is not inherently implausible from a scientific perspective. Although it can be interpreted deistically, the model also is consonant with a nondeistic theology that may be described as involving a pansacramental or incarnational naturalism.
K1 Providence
K1 pansacramentalism
K1 Panentheism
K1 Naturalism
K1 Divine Action
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2009.01014.x