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9 - Theistic Naturalism Part 3

A Pneumatological Assist

from Part 2 - The Theological Turn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2019

Sarah Lane Ritchie
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
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This chapter examines what can be called “pneumatological naturalism,” and concludes this three-part section on theistic naturalisms and divine action in the mind. The goal of Part 2 of this book has been to explore the various ways in which specific versions of theistic naturalism render different approaches to divine action and what it means to be natural – these models then serve as theological frameworks for understanding divine action in the naturalised mind. My argument in Part 2 so far has been that while these varying theological approaches differ in their respective emphases and methods of handling the causal joint problem, they hold in common a similar understanding of the God–nature relationship (and, indeed, the God–mind relationship), at least insofar as divine action is concerned. More specifically, it is argued that Thomism, panentheistic naturalism, and pneumatological naturalism share an affirmation that God’s active, immanent presence is inherent in any fully naturalistic account. Put differently, these theistic naturalisms reject standard causal joint models of divine action because of these models’ arguably deistic presumptions that nature is, by default, autonomous, self-sufficient, and devoid of divine activity. Theistic naturalisms instead offer models of divine action in which natural processes – and particularly the mind – are not seen as competing with divine action, but as participating with God in a fully natural manner.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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