God Sustains and Enlivens by Influx

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God Sustains by Conditional Influx,
Not by Natural Laws

A New Theory for Theism

The ideas of 'generalised dualism', 'discrete degrees' and 'conditional influx' may be applied to the possible understanding of the dualism of the divine and nature within a fully-fledged theism. While theism is logically distinct from a simple dualism, the philosophical issues are very similar.

Generative Theism

      Presentations by I.J. Thompson:

• Divine-Natural Dualism: The Consistency Of Physical Law With Divine Immanence
• Multiple Discrete Degrees: Sketch of a Theism

Theistic Sciences

• Leon James: Lecture Notes on Theistic Psychology
• Leon James: Overcoming Objections to Swedenborg's Writings Through the Development of Scientific Dualism
• Leon James: Substantive Dualism: Swedenborg's Integration of Biological Theology and Rational Psychology
• Leon James: Scientific Dualism in Swedenborg Glossary
• Leon James: The Organic Mind: Discovering the Mental World of Eternity

Websites:

Emanuel Swedenborg, see especially:

• Divine Love and Wisdom, also here.
• W. Denovan, A Swedenborgian View of the Problem of Philosophy.
• Discussion of Swedenborg's Ontology, contrasted in particular with Kant, Hegel and Idealism
• I.J. Thompson, Swedenborg and Modern Ideas

• Other books and articles: www.SwedenborgStudy.com

Leon James at Hawaii: www.theisticpsychology.org

Ian Thompson at Surrey: www.theisticscience.org

Discussion of relation between Kant and Swedenborg