1st Edition
Miracles in Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas Non-Noninterventionist Approaches to Divine Action and the Sciences
By Edmund Michael Lazzari
Copyright 2025
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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In order to preserve contemporary understandings of the sciences, many figures of the Divine Action Project (DAP) held that God could never violate or suspend a law of nature, causing the marginalization of miracles from scholarly theology–science dialogue. In the first substantive entry of interreligious dialogue on the topic, this book provides fresh, contemporary accounts of Said Nursi and... Read more
1. Challenges of the Divine Action Project to Miraculous Action 2. Said Nursi’s Theology of Divine Causality and Miracles 3. Nursi on Laws of Science and Miracles 4. St. Thomas Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Divine Action and Natural Scientific Causality 5. The Metaphysics of Miracles and Obediential Potency 6. Thomistic Criteria for the Epistemology of Miracles
Biography
Edmund Michael Lazzari is a faculty member of the Consortium for Interreligious Dialogue, Assistant Coordinator of External Programs, and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Catholic Studies at Duquesne University, USA.
