Causation

Stated most simply causation is how one event or process might be said to produce, and so explain, another. In terms of Christian theology, orthodoxy seems to suggest that God is capable in causing things to happen, although this is to oversimplify the idea. There is a great deal of controversy about the precise nature of God’s action in nature, particularly in the area of the extent to which God has established secondary causes in nature to act as intermediaries. 

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Contributed by: Richard P Whaite