Divine Causality & (Bad) Storytelling
Channel: Professor McCoige
Date: 2022-08-24

In this lecture, I discuss three competing theories of divine causality, or how God's will interacts with things like you and me. We discuss Open Theism, Occasionalism, and Primary/Secondary Causality (Thomism), then in the second half, I apply these theories to storytelling, to see what we can learn about why some stories are badly told, from a theological point of view. 

Related Materials: 
The philosophy of time and Marvel's Loki: https://youtu.be/vT_EYs0RSPc
My lecture/discussion series on St. Anselm's "Three Philosophical Dialogues": https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3sERPPxxSv9IAnDqZK_uKsXmF1EUypPF

00:00 Introduction
02:15 Philosophy of Causality
02:56 Open Theism
08:03 Occasionalism
14:58 Primary/Secondary Causality
19:30 Storytelling