ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the notion of an 'act of God'. However, this is not to deny that there are some who see 'acts of God' as a representation of existential truths about the human person. The chapter reviews that this notion is significant right across the theological spectrum. It rules out confining God's actions to 'internal' ones, which may in any case involve physical changes being made, as in the touch to Caligula's brain demanded by Hume. A number of academic scholars involved in biblical exegesis have specifically addressed the issue of what 'God's actions' might be. The authors finds Langford distinguishing between general divine action and specific divine action in terms of those things which a body needs to do all the time in order to maintain itself, like breathing, and those things which a body does at particular moments during its life, a particular action such as picking up a pencil.
