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329Providence, Contingency, and the Perfection of the UniversePhilosophy, Theology and the Sciences 2 (2): 137-157. 2015.In this paper, I present and analyse the theological reasons given by contemporary authors such as Robert J. Russell, Thomas Tracy and John Polkinghorne, as well as thirteenth‑century scholar Thomas Aquinas, to admit that the created universe requires being intrinsically contingent in its causing, in particular referring to their doctrines of providence. Contemporary authors stress the need of having indeterminate events within the natural world to allow for God’s providential action within crea…Read more
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990A Cause Among Causes? God Acting in the Natural WorldEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (4): 99--114. 2015.Contemporary debates on divine action tend to focus on finding a space in nature where there would be no natural causes, where nature offers indeterminacy, openness, and potentiality, to place God’s action. These places are found through the natural sciences, in particular quantum mechanics. God’s action is then located in those ontological ”causal-gaps’ offered by certain interpretations of quantum mechanics. In this view, God would determine what is left underdetermined in nature without disru…Read more
Ignacio Silva
Universidad Austral
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Universidad AustralResearch Fellow