Divine and Human Agency from the Standpoint of Historicalism, Scientism, and Phenomenological Realism

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (3):3--25 (2015)
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Abstract

Phenomenological realism, in the tradition of Dietrich von Hildebrand, is advanced as a promising methodology for a theistic philosophy of divine and human agency. Phenomenological realism is defended in contrast to the practice of historicalism -- the view that a philosophy of mind and God should always be done as part of a thoroughgoing history of philosophy, e.g. the use of examples in analytic theology should be subordinated to engaging the work of Kant and other great philosophers. The criticism of theism based on forms of naturalism that give exclusive authority to the physical sciences is criticized from a phenomenological, realist perspective.

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Charles Taliaferro
St. Olaf College

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