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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/122685| Title: | In defence of “Incarnational Deism” : the rejection of providence and teleology |
| Authors: | Brown, David |
| Keywords: | Church of England -- Controversial literature Creeds Theology, Doctrinal Spirituality -- Christianity God (Christianity) |
| Issue Date: | 2022 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta. Faculty of Theology |
| Citation: | Brown, D. (2022). In defence of “Incarnational Deism” : the rejection of providence and teleology. Melita Theologica, 72(1), 43-76. |
| Abstract: | It would not be too controversial to suggest that the idea that “God acts in the world in a variety of ways in order to realize his purposes” is central to Christian belief. Oliver Quick writes that “[t]he most obviously distinctive characteristic of Hebrew theology is its belief in God’s guidance of history.” Traditionally (at least), theologians have apologised for a God that “wishes not only for certain things to happen” but “also for them to happen in certain ways” and that one of these (if not the chief of these) “things” is the creation of humanity, the crown of God’s creation. That is, they have apologised for a God who has a distinctive purpose and who providentially guides history. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/122685 |
| ISSN: | 10129588 |
| Appears in Collections: | MT - Volume 72, Issue 1 - 2022 MT - Volume 72, Issue 1 - 2022 |
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