Chance in a Created World: How to Avoid Common Misunderstandings about Divine Action

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (3):151--165 (2015)
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Abstract

In the article ”Against Physicalism-plus-God: How Creation Accounts for Divine Action in the World’, I defined a framework which allows us to make some progress in our understanding of how God acts in the world. In the present article, I apply this framework to the specific question of chance events. I show that chance does not provide an explanation for special divine action. Nevertheless, chance does not hamper God’s ability to act in the world, and creation provides a framework for the understanding of chance, which is akin to what we see in modern science.

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