The mystery and agency of God
Subtitle: divine being and action in the world
By: Frank G. Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781451465730
Subjects: Providence and government of God; Christianity; Transcendence of God; Immanence of God; Philosophical theology; God (Christianity); Religion; Philosophy
Description: "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. Attempting to avoid the trappings of a radical distantiation and the immanent collapse of God and world, Frank Kirkpatrick argues for a theory of agency and action that preserves the mystery of God while providing a philosophically robust account of divine action in created time and space. Kirkpatrick proposes a way around the stalemates that have stymied thought on divine agency and enters into conversation with significant figures in systematic theology."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-160) and index.
Table of contents: title: Otherness and oneness: rival conceptions of God --; title: Establishing the primordiality of the agent, act, and agency --; title: Edward Pols and the metaphysics of agency --; title: The metaphysical conditions for God as agent --; title: How can God act in the world? : divine action and the infrastructure of the socio-temporal-material world --; title: Theology and the discernment of God's acts in history --; title: Coda on the mystery of God as agent.