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Does "Process as immanence" mean "Process that is the display of immanence"?

 
 
Reply Wed 6 Feb, 2013 07:43 am


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Process as immanence

The process-as-immanence argument is meant to deal with Phillip Johnson’s contention that naturalism reduces God to a distant entity. According to Peacocke, God continuously creates the world and sustains it in its general order and structure; He makes things make themselves. Biological evolution is an example of this and, according to Peacocke, should be taken as a reminder of God’s immanence. It shows us that "God is the Immanent Creator creating in and through the processes of natural order." (473, original italics) Evolution is the continuous action of God in the world. All "the processes revealed by the sciences, especially evolutionary biology, are in themselves God-acting-as-Creator". (474)
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Reply Wed 6 Feb, 2013 09:21 am
The process-as-immanence argument
means:

the thinking of it as an immanence issue . . .

or

If one considers it as an immanence discussion . . .
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Reply Wed 6 Feb, 2013 09:43 am
@PUNKEY,
PUNKEY wrote:

The process-as-immanence argument
means:

the thinking of it as an immanence issue . . .

or

If one considers it as an immanence discussion . . .


Thanks.
But sorry the answer looks circular to me.

I guess it means "Process viewed as immanence."

Am I on the right track?

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Reply Wed 6 Feb, 2013 11:37 am
@oristarA,
In light of issues of such a nebulous nature as theology, your paraphrase is on the mark.

"Process," refers to biological evolution, and is an example of God's immanence, because, "he makes things make themselves," according to Peacocke.

"Display," "example," "manifestation" and other words can be used to describe what he's saying, unless one wants to split hairs, as it were.
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