I have recently written several things on Divine
action and want to add these reflections. Here’s a wager. God “acts” into our
lives in a variety of ways, notably through images, emotions, and thoughts from
within the natural world, but this is not to say that God “intervenes” and
rearranges nature according to our desires or assumptions.
DA comes to us from Top
down (mind, consciousness) and Bottom up (organisms, quantum) causation. God
influences outcomes, but does not necessarily and normatively break natural
laws or denigrate human freedom. If this is the case, it often leaves us
without direct evidence that this or that was indeed a God act, but there are
nevertheless occasional glimpses that might, at least to some degree, be tested
in order to indicate if this would be an appropriate hypothesis.
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