DIVINE ACTION, MIND AND MODERN SCIENCE
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https://doi.org/10.26512/2358-82842017e11191Keywords:
Divine Action, Mind, Modern scienceAbstract
The paper explores the place of mind in some recent interpretations of Divine Action in the world. In order to do so, it describes the challenge that Modern Science poses to some traditional versions of divine causation and presents some of the approaches that have tried to make sense to the possibility of its action in a worldview of nature organized thought regular processes. In particular it displays the differences and similarities of Arthur Peacocke´s and Philip Clayton´s views, because in both of them mind occupies a fundamental place to understand God’s relationship with the world and, specially, with rational agency.
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