In order to preserve contemporary understandings of the sciences, many figures of the Divine Action Project (DAP) held that God could never violate or suspend a law of nature, causing the marginalization of miracles from scholarly theology–science dialogue. In the first substantive entry of interreligious dialogue on the topic, this book provides fresh, contemporary accounts of Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas on miracles and science, challenges contemporary noninterventionist presuppositions, and explores rich, untapped avenues in the theology, metaphysics, and epistemology of miracles and laws of science. Through an exploration of Nursi’s Ash’arite, Quranic interpretation of the sciences, and St. Thomas’s neglected doctrine of obediential potency, this volume marshals powerful tools from the world’s two largest religions to elucidate the foundations of God’s interaction with creatures.
As well as contributing to the contemporary debate, this volume provides Muslim and Christian readers alike substantive intellectual frameworks in which to think about the sciences from the heart of their own intellectual traditions, while at the same time giving them as alternatives to mainstream contemporary approaches for scientists and other readers engaged in theology–science dialogue.
By:
Edmund Michael Lazzari
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781032819419
ISBN 10: 1032819413
Series: Routledge Science and Religion Series
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 26 November 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction; 1. Challenges of the divine action project to miraculous action; 2. Said nursi’s theology of divine causality; 3. Nursi on laws of science and miracles; 4. St. Thomas Aquinas’s metaphysics of divine action and natural scientific causality; 5. The metaphysics of miracles and obediential potency; 6. Miracles, outliers, and laws of science: a thomistic proposal; Conclusion
Edmund Michael Lazzari is a faculty member of the Consortium for Interreligious Dialogue, Assistant Coordinator of External Programs, and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Catholic Studies at Duquesne University, USA.
