Analysis and examination on John Polkinghorne’s Theology of Divine Action

Mohammad Rezai, Mohammad; Bamba, Dullah; Ramazani Hussain Abad, Hussain; Montazeri, Sayyed Saeid Reza

doi:10.22059/jcis.2025.382608.1393

Analysis and examination on John Polkinghorne’s Theology of Divine Action

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Document Type : Scholary

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¹ Professor

² Phd Candidate of philosophy of Religion , University of Tehran, College of Farabi, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Theology Department, University of Tehran, College of Farabi, Iran

⁴ Associate professor of Philosophy of Religion, University of Tehran, College of Farabi, Iran.

10.22059/jcis.2025.382608.1393

Abstract

Divine action, is one of the challenges to theism which has received much attention lately. John Polkinghorne seeks to address this problem with a quantum perspective. This work talks about the relationship between science and theology and also clarifies John Polkinghorne understanding of God's involvement in the mundane world. Based on theological grounds of Polkinghorne vis a vis divine action in the natural order, the paper rely on his writings, lectures, interviews, and third-party accounts of his views: the paper aims to clarify his complicated views on how God acts within the natural order. Given Polkinghorne's background as a scientist and theologian, his research will close the gap between modern science and theology. perhaps, theology provides a very useful framework for human development. Polkinghorne compares the relationship between God and the world as that of the watchmaker and a watch, although he considers science and religion to be two complementary approaches for understanding the world. finally, the article shall chip in some of the views of Islamic philosophers such as Ayatollah Javadi Amoli on the same subject matter, as he considers science and religion to be two separate domains

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