Leland Harper

A Deistic Discussion of Murphy and Tracy’s Accounts of God’s Limited Activity in the Natural World

Article
18/1 - Spring 2013, pages 93-107
Date of online publication: 30 juillet 2015
Date of publication: 30 juin 2013

Abstract

Seemingly, in an attempt to appease both the micro-physicists and the classical theists, Nancey Murphy and Thomas Tracy have each developed ac- counts of God which allow for Him to act, in an otherwise causally closed natural world, through various micro-processes at the subatomic level. I argue that not only do each of these views skew the accounts of both micro-physics and theism just enough to preclude the appeasement of either group but that both accounts can aptly be classified as, what I term, epistemic deism. I go on to argue that epis- temic deism is a weak brand of deism that ultimately provides us with little to no answers to any of serious questions discussed within the philosophy or religion.

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Harper, Leland R. "A Deistic Discussion of Murphy and Tracy’s Accounts of God’s Limited Activity in the Natural World." Forum Philosophicum 18, no. 1 (2013): 93–107. doi:10.35765/forphil.2013.1801.06.