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The Power of God and Miracles

Author(s) -

Georg Gasser,

Josef Quitterer

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

european journal for philosophy of religion

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25

H-Index - 9

ISSN - 1689-8311

DOI - 10.24204/ejpr.v7i3.114

Subject(s) - miracle , ontology , natural (archaeology) , epistemology , power (physics) , philosophy , set (abstract data type) , disposition , theology , history , computer science , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , programming language

In this paper we explicate the notion of a miracle and highlight a suitable ontological framework for it. Our proposal draws on insights from Aquinas’s discussion of miracles and from the modern ontology of powers. We argue that each substance possesses a characteristic set of natural powers and dispositions which are operative or become manifest in the right circumstances. In a miracle divine intervention activates the fundamental disposition inherent in each creature to be responsive to God’s call. Thus, a miracle brings something about which a substance’s set of natural powers and dispositions could not bring about by itself.

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