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God's Omnipresent Agency
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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Recently, Anthony Kenny wrote the challenging words: ‘I know of no successful treatment of the philosophical problems involved in conceiving a non-embodied mind active throughout the universe: it is indeed rare to find among theistic philosophers even an attempt to solve the problems’.
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page 655 note 1 I would like to thank Professor Vincent Brummer, Professor Terence Penelhum and Dr D. H. Mellor for their stimulating comments on a first draft of this paper.