Science, Prayer, Free Will, and Miracles: An Essay, Reprinted From the "Dublin Review" Of April, 1867 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Ward, William George

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ISBN 10: 1333932189 ISBN 13: 9781333932183

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2016

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Excerpt from Science, Prayer, Free Will, and Miracles: An Essay, Reprinted From the "Dublin Review" Of April, 1867

I do not admit Of course that this statement is strictly true 5 because both Free Will and Miracles constitute exceptions to uniformity of phenomenal sequence. But this fact does not bear on my immediate theme.indeed it is a doctrine, which Christians not very unfrequently reduce to practice. It may well be e.g., that some one very dear to me dies, in regard to whom I should be only too happy to think that he is in Purgatory, however protracted his detention there may be. Lugo somewhere points out that, after his death, it is by no means unmeaning or necessarily unavailing to pray for his salvation; because such prayers were foreseen by God, and may have influenced Him to grant the dying man some special grace at the last.

Here then the question arises, how far it is pro bable that this is the appointed method, whereby alone (apart from direct miracle) prayer for temporal blessings can avail with God. Of course, probably enough it is one method; but is it the only or the chief method. There are two rival theories in the field, - concerning God's relation to the fixed laws of Nature,-which may be called respectively the premovement and the independence theories. According to the former, - God is (as Mr m'coll says) behind the veil, working always He continuously premoves and impels, according to His good pleasure of the moment, those fixed laws Of physical sequence, which He established at the period of creation. According to the latter theory, having once established those laws, He leaves them to Operate spontaneously, independently, blindly, Without interfering with their movement. Which Of these theories should Catholics regard as more probably the true one? A worthy discussion Of this point could not be otherwise than somewhat lengthy. But I will jot down most briefly my own(x)

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1333932189
• ISBN 13: 9781333932183
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