caa a22 4500 386387176 CHVBK 20180307112102.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0034412500001839 doi S0034412500001839 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0034412500001839 Ellis Robert Bletchley, Milton Keynes, England The Vulnerability of Action [Elektronische Daten] [Robert Ellis] Human agents, unless they be crazed by some impediment of mind, are usually all too painfully aware of the risks inherent in their task of exercising agency. We are vulnerable as we act to forces not fully within our control, to unsound judgements which we ourselves make, and to the limits of our own reach which we sometimes miss or ignore. However, it is common enough in orthodox Christian circles, when transposing the concepts of action and agency to the divine, to remove the element of risk which so closely accompanies our own experience of action. God, it is claimed, is the perfect agent - who never fails - who accomplishes all and everything he sets out to do. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/2(1989-06), 225-233 0034-4125 25:2<225 1989 25 RES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500001839 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500001839 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ellis Robert Bletchley, Milton Keynes, England NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/2(1989-06), 225-233 0034-4125 25:2<225 1989 25 RES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge