Abstract
In 2013 I wrote a paper entitled “A Deistic Discussion of Murphy and Tracy’s Accounts of God’s Limited Activity in the Natural World,” in which I criticized the views of Nancey Murphy and Thomas Tracy, labeling their views as something that I called “epistemic deism.” Since the publication of that paper another, similar, view by Bradley Monton was brought to my attention, one called “noninterventionist special divine action theory.” I take this paper as an opportunity to accomplish several goals. First, I take it as an opportunity to clarify and correct some of my previous claims. Secondly, I present and analyze Monton’s view. And, finally, I discuss the similarities that Monton’s view holds with those of Murphy’s and Tracy’s and discuss how they all can be reduced to being part of the same family of ontological views which are, ultimately, implausible.
Highlights
Several years ago I wrote an essay, entitled “A Deistic Discussion of Murphy and Tracy’s Accounts of God’s Limited Activity in the Natural World,”1 in which I criticized some particular views of Nancey Murphy and Thomas Tracy
The main goal that Monton sets out to accomplish in his paper “God Acts in the Quantum World” (GQW ) is to argue that despite the nature of noninterventionist special divine action theories confining God’s active ability to the subatomic world, this does not mean that what God can accomplish through His actions is limited in any sense
The discussion has gone to show a variety of problems that are present within these types of theories, namely that there is an enormous amount of explanation that must go into each and every detail within the theory. This is because any theory that can be reduced to a version of epistemic deism is, essentially, a theory that is based on justifying varying numbers and degrees of exceptions within itself
Summary
Several years ago I wrote an essay, entitled “A Deistic Discussion of Murphy and Tracy’s Accounts of God’s Limited Activity in the Natural World,”1 in which I criticized some particular views of Nancey Murphy and Thomas Tracy. The main goal that Monton sets out to accomplish in his paper “God Acts in the Quantum World” (GQW ) is to argue that despite the nature of noninterventionist special divine action theories confining God’s active ability to the subatomic world, this does not mean that what God can accomplish through His actions is limited in any sense.
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