Providence perceived : divine action from a human point of view / Mark W. Elliott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliott, M. W. (Mark W.), author.

Series:

Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte ; 124.

Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 1861-5996 ; Band 124

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Providence and government of God.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book will offer an account not so much of God’s Providence an sich, but rather of divine providence as experienced by believers and unbelievers. It will not ask questions about whether and how God knows the future, or how suffering can be accounted for (as is the case in the treatments by William Lane Craig, Richard Swinburne, or J. Sanders), but will focus on prayer and decision-making as a faithful and/or desperate response to the perception of God as having some controlling influence. The following gives an idea of the ground to be covered: The patristic foundations of the Christian view of Providence; The medieval synthesis of ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’ views; Reformational and Early Modern: the shift towards piety; Modern Enlightenment: Providence and Ethics; Barth and the Sceptics; The sense of Providence in the Modern Novel and World.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgement

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Providence in the early Christian Church’s Theology

Chapter Two: The Medieval Account of Providence

Chapter Three: Later Medieval Developments

Chapter Four: Reformation Providence

Chapter Five: The Doctrine’s Fortunes in the Early Modern Era

Chapter Six: The Enlightenment’s ongoing Challenge to the Doctrine of Providence

Chapter Seven: Providence in twentieth-century theological discussion

Chapter Eight: Coming up to date: works in the last five years

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index of Scripture References

Index of Key Figures

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 11, 2015).

ISBN:

9783110382976

3110382970

9783110310641

3110310643

OCLC:

908517442