Chance Divine

Chance Divine
Author: Jeffrey Skinner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780997335514

Chance Divine explores the broadest territory possible, from the origins of the universe to the speculative, precarious future. Visionary, wildly unpredictable, and often unsettlingly funny, this is a book that matters.

Unlocking Divine Action

Unlocking Divine Action
Author: Michael J. Dodds
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2012-09-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0813219892

Provides a sustained account of how the thought of Aquinas may be used in conjunction with contemporary science to deepen our understanding of divine action and address such issues as creation, providence, prayer, and miracles.

Divine Confidential

Divine Confidential
Author: Jacquelin Thomas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2007-03-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1416538380

Divine is used to getting what she wants.... Thanks to her loving Aunt Phoebe and Uncle Reed, Divine Matthews-Hardison has a place to call home after the Hollywood life she was accustomed to fell apart at the seams. Getting away from the spotlight that nearly destroyed her own parents, Divine has changed for the better -- though there's still enough diva in Divine to keep life in Temple, Georgia, very lively, from mall shopping with her cousin Alyssa and her fashion-challenged aunt, to worshipping at her uncle's church, to dating. But what if it's too much too soon? Divine has boys on the brain and she's itching for a social life -- at least as much as is allowed under Uncle Reed's watchful eyes. She knows she's too young for the kind of secretive drama her cousin Chance is going through with his girlfriend, but still.... Turning to the internet, Divine gets a major crush on sixteen-year-old Sean, who sounds and looks like the perfect guy. But she is about to learn a difficult -- and potentially dangerous -- lesson: Things are not always what they appear to be....

Divine Pearls

Divine Pearls
Author: Mareshah Brown Miller
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2019-03-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1644168669

Divine Pearls is a collection of Mareshah Brown Miller's personal short stories and reflections. She uniquely weaves wisdom into everyday experiences and explores vital life lessons. Her stories are entertaining, inspirational, and encouraging. Some will make you laugh; some will make you cry; but all will make you think.

God's Action in Nature's World

God's Action in Nature's World
Author: Robert J. Russell
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780754655565

In 1981 Robert John Russell founded what would become the leading center of research at the interface of science and religion, the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. Focusing on three areas of Russell's work - methodology, cosmology, and divine action in quantum physics - God's Action in Nature's World assesses and celebrates Robert Russell's impact on the discipline of science and religion.

On Divine Revelation: The Teaching of the Catholic Faith Vol. Two

On Divine Revelation: The Teaching of the Catholic Faith Vol. Two
Author: Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Publisher: Emmaus Academic
Total Pages: 727
Release: 2022-05-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1645851818

In On Divine Revelation—one of Garrigou-Lagrange’s most significant works, here available in English for the very first time—he offers a classic treatment of this foundational topic. It is an organized and thorough defense of both the rationality and supernaturality of divine revelation. He presents a careful yet stimulating account of the scientific character of theology, the nature of revelation itself, mystery, dogma, the grace of faith, the powers of human reason, false interpretations thereof (rationalism, naturalism, agnosticism, and pantheism), the motives of credibility, and much more. Though written a century ago, On Divine Revelation will restore confidence in theology as a distinct and unified science and return focus to the fundamental questions of the doctrine of revelation. It also serves as a salutary corrective to contemporary theology’s anthropocentrism and concern with what is relative in revelation and religious experience by reorienting our theological attention to what is most certain, central, and sure in our knowledge of divine revelation: the Triune God who has revealed his inner life and salvific will. Readers will see the great splendor of the gift of divine revelation: radiant with credibility before the gaze of reason and drawing our supernatural assent to the mysteries through the gift of faith. As Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. observes, “On Divine Revelation . . . is a stunning work of inestimable value. No other subsequent work on this topic has come close to meeting it (much less surpassing it).”

Divine Action and Natural Selection

Divine Action and Natural Selection
Author: Joseph Seckbach
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 1122
Release: 2009
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9812834354

The debate between divine action, or faith, and natural selection, or science, is garnering tremendous interest. This book ventures well beyond the usual, contrasting American Protestant and atheistic points of view, and also includes the perspectives of Jews, Muslims, and Roman Catholics. It contains arguments from the various proponents of intelligent design, creationism, and Darwinism, and also covers the sensitive issue of how to incorporate evolution into the secondary school biology curriculum. Comprising contributions from prominent, award-winning authors, the book also contains dialogs following each chapter to provide extra stimulus to the readers and a full picture of this OC hotOCO topic, which delves into the fundamentals of science and religion."

The Divine Imprint

The Divine Imprint
Author: Russell Stannard
Publisher: SPCK
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2017-04-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0281078114

The so-called New Atheists receive much publicity, but their demand to be provided with incontrovertible evidence for the existence of God, and that such evidence must come from a scientific examination of the physical world, is the wrong approach. As many theologians and philosophers have claimed, the search for God begins by looking inwards into oneself. But what does that mean? Surely looking inwards we find nothing but the contents of one’s own mind. Where does God come in? It is by the examination of the contents of the mind and trying to understand how they got there that one seeks clues about God’s influence on the mind. Our consciousness bears a resemblance to that Consciousness from which it is directly derived. It bears his imprint. It is from the characteristics of that imprint we get to know what kind of God we are dealing with. Only then can we be open to realizing how that other creation of his, the physical world, also bears his imprint.

Philosophy, Science and Divine Action

Philosophy, Science and Divine Action
Author: F. LeRon Shults
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2009-08-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9047440234

One of the most important and controversial themes in the contemporary dialogue among scientists and Christian theologians is the issue of "divine action" in the world. This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars on this topic, which emerged out of the Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action project, co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and Natural Science. This multi-year collaboration involved over 50 authors meeting at five international conferences. The essays collected here demonstrate the pervasive role of philosophy in this dialogue. Contributors include: Ian Barbour, Philip Clayton, George F. R. Ellis, Nancey Murphy, Arthur Peacocke, John Polkinghorne, Robert John Russell, F. LeRon Shults, William Stoeger, Thomas F. Tracy and Wesley Wildman.

Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity

Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity
Author: Bradford McCall
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2023-10-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725278537

What are the things that God values in the creative process? How does one define God's activity in such a world? How is God's involvement different from a contingent--what this author labels contingentist--instance? Why do we need a God-idea at all? Herein, Bradford McCall addresses how divine, amorepotent love works with and within a contingentist (i.e., radically contingent) evolutionary theory and worldview. Within the course of this project, he reaches a via media between the (somewhat) radical formalist position of Simon Conway Morris and the veritably radical contingent position of Stephen Jay Gould. But . . . how is the contingentist amorepotent and uncontrolling love of God understood as purposeful? McCall argues in detail that there in fact is some sort of purposiveness that is nevertheless working in a chastened Gouldian position, and he distinguishes between contingency and veritable divine involvement. He contends that God does not insist upon a particular outcome but merely allows propensities to work themselves out. God amorepotently loves the population of the natural world into greater forms of complexity, relationality, and beauty in varied and multifarious forms, along with the extension of diversity.