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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 August 2019
      25 July 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108568609
      9781108476515
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108568609
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 384 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Philosophy of Mind and Language, Religion, Philosophy, Theology
      Series:
      Current Issues in Theology (14)
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    Philosophy of Mind and Language, Religion, Philosophy, Theology
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    Current Issues in Theology (14)
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    Is the human mind uniquely nonphysical or even spiritual, such that divine intentions can meet physical realities? As scholars in science and religion have spent decades attempting to identify a 'causal joint' between God and the natural world, human consciousness has been often privileged as just such a locus of divine-human interaction. However, this intuitively dualistic move is both out of step with contemporary science and theologically insufficient. By discarding the God-nature model implied by contemporary noninterventionist divine action theories, one is freed up to explore theological and metaphysical alternatives for understanding divine action in the mind. Sarah Lane Ritchie suggests that a theologically robust theistic naturalism offers a more compelling vision of divine action in the mind. By affirming that to be fully natural is to be involved with God's active presence, one may affirm divine action not only in the human mind, but throughout the natural world.

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    ‘This book is an excellent survey of the divine action field, with a polemical edge. I found it very helpful in addressing head-on some issues which I have found faintly disquieting for decades. I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in science and faith.’

    Peter Haslehurst Source: Anabaptism Today

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