Concordia Theological Monthly
Article Title
Publication Date
12-1-1951
Document Type
Article
Keywords
st. paul, human action, providence, christian, philosophers, evil, atheistic, atheism, athens, doctrine, fatalism, philosophy, pagan, salvation, resurrection
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
In presenting the doctrine of divine providence, the teachers of the Christian Church usually stress, in the first place, God's actual conservation of all created things, by which His creatures persist both in their being and their operation (in esse suo ac vi operandi). Should their categories at times appear as rather scholastic or academic, it is well to remember that they were endeavoring to clarify and preserve intact in its purity the somewhat mysterious Scripture doctrine of God's actual participation in creatural action against the two fundamental fallacies of erring human reason: fatalism and atheism.
Disciplines
Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Scripture References in this Resource (separated by semi-colons)
1 Corinthians 15:32-33; Acts 17:14; Acts 17:17-21; Romans 1:24, 26; Romans 1:24, 26; Romans 1:18; Romans 2:9; Romans 2:6; Romans 8:28; 2 Corinthians 1:5-6; Acts 14:16;
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Mueller, John Theodore
(1951)
"God's Concurrence in Human Action,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 22, Article 74.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol22/iss1/74
