Title
The Analogical Alternative
Department/School
Theology
Date
2020
Document Type
Article
Keywords
Christian thought, Michael Dodd
Abstract
Michael Dodds’s proposal for understanding divine action is fundamentally analogical. It is based on an understanding of ex nihilo creation that also can only be expressed analogically. Because there are different orders or levels of reality, our language of creation in general and causation in particular must be able to stretch across such levels. Whether Dodds commends or critiques a position on divine action depends on whether the theologian has been thinking univocally or analogically.
Published in
Sapientia, Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding
COinS
Citation/Other Information
Rolnick, Philip. “The Analogical Alternative.” Sapientia, Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding (January 14, 2020).