Reasons and Divine Action

Rice, Rebekah L. H.

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198743958.003.0015

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“…Other authors have developed theories of divine action. Rice (2016), for instance, argues that agent-causal theories of action-including those applied to God-face difficulties accounting for what action-for-a-reason consists in. Rice's causal theory of divine action that avoids the aforementioned objection-an account according to which "[f]or every event e in the life of God, e is an action of God's iff e is caused by the appropriate (rationalizing) [divine] mental items" (2016, p. 272)-is uniquely unavailable to classical theism.…”

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The modal collapse objection to classical theism has received significant attention among philosophers as of late. My aim in this paper is to advance this blossoming debate. First, I briefly survey the modal collapse literature and argue that classical theists avoid modal collapse if and only if they embrace an indeterministic link between God and his effects. Second, I argue that this indeterminism poses two challenges to classical theism. The first challenge is that it collapses God's status as an intentional agent who knows and intends what he is bringing about in advance. The second challenge is that it collapses God's providential control over which creation obtains.

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