Reframing providence : new perspectives from Aquinas on the divine action debate / Simon Maria Kopf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kopf, Simon Maria, author.

Series:

Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Providence and government of God--Christianity--History of doctrines.

Providence and government of God.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

The doctrine of providence, which states that God guides his creation, has been widely conceived in action terms in recent theological scholarship. Instead of recalibrating the much-discussed non-interventionist objective divine action (NIODA) approaches, Simon Maria Kopf advocates a 'reframing' of providence in terms of the virtue of prudence.

Contents:

Intro

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Abbreviated Works

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

The Doctrine of Providence

Actionistic and Prudential-Ordinative Providence

The Divine Action Debate

New Perspectives from Aquinas

Reframing Providence

Overview

Part I. Framing Providence-Actionistic Providence

1. The Divine Action Debate

1.1 The Historical Roots of the Divine Action Debate

1.2 The Theological Pushback on Divine Action in Nature

1.3 The Concept of Special Divine Action

2. The Divine Action Project (1988-2003)

2.1 A New Framework as Alleged Breakthrough

2.2 Non-Interventionism and the Laws of Nature

2.3 The NIODA Models

3. The Reason for the Deadlock

3.1 Theo-Physical Incompatibilism

3.2 The Incompatibilist Premise

3.3 Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Objections

Summary of Part I

Part II. Reframing Providence-Prudential-Ordinative Providence

4. Towards a Prudential-Ordinative Understanding of Providence

4.1 Prudence and Providence

4.2 Against a Common Misconception

4.3 The Concept of Secondary Causation

5. Divine Providence, Natural Contingency, and the Doctrine of Transcendence

5.1 Revisiting the Role of Contingency and Necessity in Providence

5.2 The Doctrine of Divine Transcendence

5.3 Towards a New Appreciation of Contingency

6. The Teleological Nature of Providence and the Teleological Natures of Creatures

6.1 Teleology Revisited

6.2 A Fresh Assessment of the Theory of Appetency

6.3 Divine Government through Immanent Natural Teleology

Summary of Part II

Part III. An Application-Revisiting An Evolution Debate

7. Replaying the Tape of Life

7.1 The 'Gospel of (Evolutionary) Contingency'.

7.2 The 'Gospel of (Human Life's) Inevitability'

7.3 The 'Secularisation of Providence'

8. Evaluating the Theological Responses

8.1 The Limitations of NIODA as a Response to Evolutionary Contingency

8.2 The Fruitfulness of the New Perspectives from Aquinas

8.3 The Directionality of Biological Evolution

Summary of Part III

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Print version: Kopf, Simon Maria Reframing Providence

ISBN:

9780191976636

0191976636

9780192882134

0192882139

9780192882141

0192882147