Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Does Participatory Ontology Deny Creation's Integrity?

"RO’s participatory ontology can slide toward an occasionalism that requires the incessant activity of the Creator to uphold what would seem to be a deficient creation – a tendency to emphasize the creature’s participation in the divine to the extent that it seems the divine does everything. While seeking to undo the regnant secular concept of an autonomous nature, does RO’s participatory framework risk sliding toward an alternative model that does not grant any independence to the creation?" (p. 205)

The integrity of creation is seen as a third way between autonomy and occasionalism. (P. 207)

James K.A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy

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