What Do God and Creatures Really Do in an Evolutionary Change? Divine Concurrence and Transformism from the Thomistic Perspective

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العنوان: What Do God and Creatures Really Do in an Evolutionary Change? Divine Concurrence and Transformism from the Thomistic Perspective
المؤلفون: Mariusz Tabaczek
المصدر: American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. 93:445-482
بيانات النشر: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2019.
سنة النشر: 2019
مصطلحات موضوعية: Philosophy, Creatures, Perspective (graphical), Hylomorphism, Religious studies, Evolutionary change, Concurrence, Epistemology
الوصف: Many enthusiasts of theistic evolution willingly accept Aquinas’s distinction between primary and secondary causes, to describe theologically “the mechanics” of evolutionary transformism. However, their description of the character of secondary causes in relation to God’s creative action oftentimes lacks precision. To some extent, the situation within the Thomistic camp is similar when it comes to specifying the exact nature of secondary and instrumental causes at work in evolution. Is it right to ascribe all causation in evolution to creatures—acting as secondary and instrumental causes? Is there any space for a more direct divine action in evolutionary transitions? This article offers a new model of explaining the complexity of the causal nexus in the origin of new biological species, including the human species, analyzed in reference to both the immanent and transcendent orders of causation.
تدمد: 1051-3558
DOI: 10.5840/acpq2019514179
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::fff64fe94f2cd996b32ff342b4dccddf
https://doi.org/10.5840/acpq2019514179
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi...........fff64fe94f2cd996b32ff342b4dccddf
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
تدمد:10513558
DOI:10.5840/acpq2019514179