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How Does God Control?
In our third episode on divine providence we start to unpack the philosophical model we call “Omni-instrumentality”. At the heart of this model is a conception of divine concurrence as God’s essential cooperation with nature. Before we get to explaining this in detail, then, we must first explain what we mean by essential cooperation and nature, which we do in this episode.
00:00 - Introduction
00:41 - Anti-fragile faith?
03:49 - Framing the puzzle of divine providence
07:40 - Omni-instrumentality, or the Lonergan-McArthur model
10:04 - Concurrence as the middle-ground between Occasionalism and Conservationism
13:07 - Concurrence as God‘s essential cooperation with nature
17:48 - The three modes of cooperation
36:46 - Nature vs artifice vs aggregation
44:46 - Returning to our definition of concurrence
Works mentioned in this episode:
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Anti-fragile: www.amazon.com/dp/0812979680
- Bernard Lonergan, Grace and Freedom: www.amazon.com/dp/0802083374
- Ronald McArthur, “Universal in praedicando, universal in causando”: https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ltp/1962-v18-n1-ltp0960/1020019ar.pdf
- Thomas McLaughlin, “Nature and Inertia”: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Nature-and-Inertia-Mclaughlin/486b9ab089974b5a4adcdc3d2b1cebd431cad288
- Roland’s blog post series: https://thinkingthoughtout.com/larger-projects/omni-instrumentality/
The Faith Seeking Understanding podcast is also available on the following platforms:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKz8PlM8nC5Vnwvx_e2HmESdKBQq2exoe
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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7cjo4np6hobnCjm2cuPkKk
Faith Seeking Understanding is a ministry aimed at providing deep dives into theology. To find out more, visit our website or follow us on social media:
Website: https://www.faithseekingunderstanding.co.za
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fsu_southafrica
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By Faith Seeking UnderstandingIn our third episode on divine providence we start to unpack the philosophical model we call “Omni-instrumentality”. At the heart of this model is a conception of divine concurrence as God’s essential cooperation with nature. Before we get to explaining this in detail, then, we must first explain what we mean by essential cooperation and nature, which we do in this episode.
00:00 - Introduction
00:41 - Anti-fragile faith?
03:49 - Framing the puzzle of divine providence
07:40 - Omni-instrumentality, or the Lonergan-McArthur model
10:04 - Concurrence as the middle-ground between Occasionalism and Conservationism
13:07 - Concurrence as God‘s essential cooperation with nature
17:48 - The three modes of cooperation
36:46 - Nature vs artifice vs aggregation
44:46 - Returning to our definition of concurrence
Works mentioned in this episode:
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Anti-fragile: www.amazon.com/dp/0812979680
- Bernard Lonergan, Grace and Freedom: www.amazon.com/dp/0802083374
- Ronald McArthur, “Universal in praedicando, universal in causando”: https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ltp/1962-v18-n1-ltp0960/1020019ar.pdf
- Thomas McLaughlin, “Nature and Inertia”: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Nature-and-Inertia-Mclaughlin/486b9ab089974b5a4adcdc3d2b1cebd431cad288
- Roland’s blog post series: https://thinkingthoughtout.com/larger-projects/omni-instrumentality/
The Faith Seeking Understanding podcast is also available on the following platforms:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKz8PlM8nC5Vnwvx_e2HmESdKBQq2exoe
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/faith-seeking-understanding/id1681648478 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmFpdGhzZWVraW5ndW5kZXJzdGFuZGluZy5jby56YS9wb2RjYXN0P2Zvcm1hdD1yc3M
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7cjo4np6hobnCjm2cuPkKk
Faith Seeking Understanding is a ministry aimed at providing deep dives into theology. To find out more, visit our website or follow us on social media:
Website: https://www.faithseekingunderstanding.co.za
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fsu_southafrica
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fsu.southafrica
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fsu_southafrica