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    The Divine Word is described as the agent through which a... — Carmelics
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    Supports→It is not unprecedented for efficient causes to double as final causes, even within the Christian tradition.

    The Divine Word is described as the agent through which all things were made, yet was itself born late in time.

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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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