up with the absentee God of deism ? The neo-Thomist view of God as primary cause working through secondary causes as defended by Bill Stoeger tries to escape this conclusion, but Barbour thinks it undermines human freedom. Alternatively, God

theology, as the history of deism underscores. Instead results from cosmology can count as a form of theological evidence, but only with a much more complex and carefully delineated understanding of what evidence means and how it helps

it seems we are left with Deism. I should say that both Peacocke and Barbour are careful to state that information is only ever realised in physical states during coding, transmission, and decoding, and that it should not be seen "in

traditional orthodoxy and deism , Lucas cites both Barth and process theology in support of divine temporality. Moreover, the Biblical witness is unalterably to a God who acts in specific ways. Though God may be beyond time in the sense that

more problematic models: deism and pantheism . In their place Moltmann commends to us a trinitarian model in which “God the Father creates through the Logos /Wisdom in the power of the Holy Spirit. . . . God not only transcends the world

response to the charge of deism , as Peacocke emphasizes, is to see God’s action as immanent within natural processes. Moreover, as Rustum Roy points out, the interplay of chance and law in nature means that we should accept a similar

attacks is the God of deism , not the God of Christians, Jews and Muslims. Moreover an alternate interpretation of the Hawking cosmology has been offered by Isham , who shows how God can be thought of as present to and active in all events

philosopher, who promoted deism and a sceptical attitude towards Scriptural revelation. Related Topics: Philosophy Contributed by: Dr. Christopher Southgate Search for Collins, Anthony

before” - some form of deism , God being described as the first cause of all things, but as not otherwise active in the unfolding cosmos . “God behind” - the third obvious strategy is to posit that God acts

to be just as successful as deism was historically, which always served as an unsatisfactory halfway house between theism (with its informationally open universe) and naturalism (which insists the universe remain informationally closed). There