Metaphysical Investigations

Process theologians, based on their intellectual foundations, and looking for a solution to way out of theological problems of Western religious studies, offer a new explanation of God's agency in the system of nature. According to their belief, divine activity based on the movement and organismic system of the world should be interpreted in such a way that the activity, free will and creativity of other beings are preserved. Their solution to this problem, limitation of divine power and knowledge, which results in the negation of essential necessity and vertical relationship with other beings. In the other words, God is merely a necessary requirement and preparing cause, and among other reasons and natural agent of the world's beings. The laws and order of the natural world are also the result of the free will and creativity of the creatures of the world. Although the self-limiting thinkers who are influenced by process theologians consider the limitation of divine power to be self-willed, but this thinking also leads to the negation of God's essential necessity.But Mulla sadra , by proving God's essential necessity and vertical relationship with other beings, considers God's agency to be real and creative, and by considering existence as belonging to convention, he considers all beings, including the laws of the natural world, which are inherent in it, to belong to God's simple creation. This philosophical view of Mulla Sadra can provide an appropriate answer to answer the problems of Western religious studies in the field of divine agency.

Keywords: Process Theology, Mulla Sadra, Agency by Manifestation, divine agency, Laws and Order of the Natural

     

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