ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses religious experience and examines its implications for revelation and divine action. There has recently been enormous interest in divine action, and the questions of whether and how it can be reconciled with modern science. An important general issue about divine action concerns the relationship between general and special providence. The chapter suggests that a rich view of general providence makes it unnecessary to offer any distinct account of non-human special providences; specific providence can be confined to God's influence on human beings. It focuses on God's action in relation to people. Like all talk about God, talk of divine action is analogical, and the background metaphorical assumption is that human action provides a way of understanding God's influence within the world. The chapter explores the contribution that ideas of 'resonance' or 'tuning' can make as additional metaphors to set along side that of divine action.
