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to establish the freedom and power of a divine agent to act with-
out having to contradict or be diminished by the ontological con-
text of other agents nondualistically relating to each other through
mutual action.


Notes
1. Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be ( New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1952), pp. 184-85.
2. This concept of transcendence, as we shall see, is different from
that employed in the dualist frame of understanding insofar as it does not
assume a radical, ontological gap or change of ontological context between
the transcending and the transcended entities.
3. Ervin Laszlo, Introduction to Systems Philosophy: Toward a New
Paradigm of Contemporary Thought ( New York: Gordon and Breach, 1972),
p. 97.
4. Paul Weiss, "The Living System: Determinism Stratified," in
Arthur Koestler and J. R. Smythies, eds., Beyond Reductionism, The
Alpbach Symposium 1968 ( Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), p. 33.
5. Hilde Hein, On the Nature and Origin of Life ( New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1971), pp. 172-73.
6. Edward Pols, Meditation on a Prisoner: Towards Understanding
Action and Mind ( Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1975),
p. 11.
7. Edward Pols, "The Ontology of the Rational Agent," Review of
Metaphysics, 33, no. 4 ( June 1980): 690.
8. Edward Pols, "Power and Agency," International Philosophical
Quarterly, 11, no. 3 ( September 1971): 295.
9. Edward Pols, The Acts of Our Being: A Reflection on Agency and
Responsibility ( Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982), pp. 36-
38.
10. Ibid., p. 36.
11. It may not, however, be one that she herself would identify as
such.
12. Pols, Meditation on a Prisoner, p. 103.
13. Ibid., p. 99.
14. Edward Pols, "Human Agents as Actual Beings," Process Stud-
ies, 8, no. 2 ( 1978): 111.
15. Pols, Meditation on a Prisoner, p. 105.
16. Ibid., p. 110.
17. Ibid., p. 72.
18. Ibid., p. 309.
19. Ibid., p. 42.
20. Ibid., p. 65.
21. Ibid., p. 310.

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