While the stated topic of the book is divine action, the subtitle does a lot of work: Contemporary Science & Thomas Aquinas. Dodds believes that modern views of causality are impoverished, and that Aristotelian-Thomist metaphysics provides the remedy. While this is doubtful in my opinion, the mapping of medieval concepts to contemporary science should be…

If everything that happens is governed by the laws of nature, then in some sense things have to occur just as they do. And since people are situated within nature, that applies as much to us as billiard balls and comets. So while it might seem like your actions are to some degree “free,” from…