God\u27s Concurrence in Human Action

In presenting the doctrine of divine providence, the teachers of the Christian Church usually stress, in the first place, God\u27s actual conservation of all created things, by which His creatures persist both in their being and their operation (in esse suo ac vi operandi). Should their categories at times appear as rather scholastic or academic, it is well to remember that they were endeavoring to clarify and preserve intact in its purity the somewhat mysterious Scripture doctrine of God\u27s actual participation in creatural action against the two fundamental fallacies of erring human reason: fatalism and atheism