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    Supports→Concrete realizations of the supreme good are both the efficient and final cause of the universe, making them both alpha and omega.

    Realizing the property of divinity (being the supreme good) is the final cause (telos) of the universe.

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    John Bishop and Ken Perszyk (2016, 2017) propose a panentheism they call a “euteleological conception of divinity” (model 22 here), on which (1) divinity is the property or activity of being the supreme good (“eu” in “euteleological”) and (2) realizing this property or activity is the point (“telos” or final cause) of the universe. In addition—inspired by an unusual kind of efficient causation called “axiarchism” on which final causes can function as efficient ones, an idea visible at least sinc

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