{"id":2587,"date":"2026-01-13T13:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:49:16","slug":"divine-action-what-weve-learned-from-quantum-mechanics-about-non-interventionist-objective-divine-action-in-nature-and-what-are-its-remaining-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/divine-action-what-weve-learned-from-quantum-mechanics-about-non-interventionist-objective-divine-action-in-nature-and-what-are-its-remaining-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Action | What we\u2019ve learned from quantum mechanics about non-interventionist objective divine action in nature \u2013 and what are its remaining challenges?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angelicum Thomistic Institute \u2013 Science &amp; Religion Online Series \u201cDivine Action\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lecture by Dr. Robert Russell<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">GTU Professor Emeritus of Theology and Science<\/span>I first present \u201cNIODA: Non-Interventionist Objective Divine Action\u201d and the reasons why some forms of Christian theology that are in conversation with the natural sciences need it.\u00a0 I then briefly describe the series of five international research conferences created by the Vatican Observatory and CTNS in 1988-2003 in which NIODA, among many other key topics, was developed in light of physical cosmology, chaos theory, quantum mechanics, evolutionary biology and neuroscience. I argue in particular that quantum indeterminacy offers an appropriate basis for developing a theology which employs NIODA.\u00a0 I close with an assessment of the potential value of NIODA for Thomistic theology.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angelicum Thomistic Institute \u2013 Science &amp; Religion Online Series \u201cDivine Action\u201d Lecture by Dr. Robert Russell GTU Professor Emeritus of Theology and ScienceI first present \u201cNIODA: Non-Interventionist Objective Divine Action\u201d and the reasons why some forms of Christian theology that are in conversation with the natural sciences need it.\u00a0 I then briefly describe the series [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"organizer":[20],"language":[29],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion-and-philosophy","organizer-pontificia-universita-s-tommaso-daquino-angelicum","language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"organizer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organizer?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}