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The mystery and agency of God divine being and action in the world
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The mystery and agency of God [electronic resource] : divine being and action in the world / Frank G. Kirkpatrick.
ISBN
1451479778
9781451479775
1451465734
9781451465730
Published
Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2014] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (xvii, 163 pages))
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Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary
There are two philosophical commitments requisite to Christian belief: that God is the ultimate mystery and that God is present and active in the world and therefore accessible to creatures. Attempting to avoid the trappings of a radical distantiation on the one hand, and the immanent collapse of God and world on the other, Frank Kirkpatrick argues for an underdeveloped theory of agency and action that preserves the mystery of God while providing a philosophically robust account of discernible, personal divine action in created time and space. Drawing on the often neglected philosophical work of thinkers like John Macmurray, Raymond Tallis, and Edward Pols, Kirkpatrick proposes a way around the stalemates that have stymied the attempt to think divine agency coherently. This is then brought into conversation with systematic theology, where it is critically tested by, and critiques, accounts in Barth, Pannenberg, Torrance, Jenson, and the recent work of Kevin Hector.
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2014 Philosophy and Religion.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 12, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-159) and index.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Otherness and Oneness : Rival Conceptions of God
Establishing the Primordiality of the Agent, Act, and Agency
Edward Pols and the Metaphysics of Agency
The Metaphysical Conditions for God as Agent How Can God Act in the World? : Divine Action and the Infrastructure of the Socio-Temporal-Material World
Theology and the Discernment of God's Acts in History
Coda on the Mystery of God as Agent
Bibliography
Index.
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