Miracles in Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas

Auteur

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.

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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.

Contenu

1. Challenges of the Divine Action Project to Miraculous Action 2. Said Nursi's Theology of Divine Causality and Miracles 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. Thomistic Criteria for the Epistemology of Miracles