The question of divine agency in the world remains one important
unresolved underlying obstacle in the dialogue between theology and
science. Modern notions of divine agency are shown to have
developed out of the interaction of three factors in early
modernity. Two are well known: late medieval perfect-being theology
and the early modern application of the notion of the two books of
God's revelation to the understanding of the natural order. It is
argued the third is the early modern appropriation of the
Augustinian doctrine of inspiration. This assumes the soul's
existence and a particular description of divine agency in humans,
which became more generally applied to divine agency in nature.
Whereas Newton explicitly draws the parallel between divine agency
in humans and that in nature, Darwin rejects its supposed
perfection and Huxley raises serious questions regarding the
traditional understanding of the soul. This book offers an
alternative incarnational description of divine agency, freeing
consideration of divine agency from being dependent on resolving
the complex issues of perfect-being theology and the existence of
the soul. In conversation with Barth's pneumatology, this proposal
is shown to remain theologically coherent and plausible while
resolving or avoiding a range of known difficulties in the
science-theology dialogue.
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