God in Action (Problems in Theology)
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2004
128 pages
978-0-567-24950-0 (ISBN)
Description
This reader brings together carefully selected material from a wide range of authors on the meaning and status of divine action. It samples the recent literature on providence, miracle, prayer and grace together with some relevant classical texts.
Topics include locating God's action, images of divine control, human freedom in relation to providence and grace, the nature of and evidence of miracle, prayer and pain, answers to prayer, and the experience of grace.
Contributors include Peter Baelz, Karl Barth, Vincent Brummer, David Hume, David Jenkins, C. S. Lewis, Helen Oppenheimer, D. Z. Phillips, Karl Rahner, Paul Tillich, Thomas Tracy, Victor White and Maurice Wiles.
Topics include locating God's action, images of divine control, human freedom in relation to providence and grace, the nature of and evidence of miracle, prayer and pain, answers to prayer, and the experience of grace.
Contributors include Peter Baelz, Karl Barth, Vincent Brummer, David Hume, David Jenkins, C. S. Lewis, Helen Oppenheimer, D. Z. Phillips, Karl Rahner, Paul Tillich, Thomas Tracy, Victor White and Maurice Wiles.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-567-24950-0 (9780567249500)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Reading the readings
- 1 - Providence
- 1.1 Providence in the Bible
- 1.2 Locating God's action
- 1.3 Indirect divine action and the universal hand of God
- 1.4 Human freedom and divine frustration
- 1.5 Images of divine control
- Topics for discussion
- 2 - Miracles
- 2.1 Miracle in the Bible
- 2.2 Defining miracle
- 2.3 Signs and wonders?
- 2.4 Testing miracles
- Topics for discussion
- 3 - Prayer
- 3.1 Prayer in the Bible
- 3.2 Prayer and pain
- 3.3 Prayer and answers
- 3.4 Prayer, determinism and freedom
- 3.5 Prayer and the will of God
- 3.6 Prayer and work
- Topics for discussion
- 4 - Grace
- 4.1 Grace in the Bible
- 4.2 Augustine on grace and freedom
- 4.3 Locating grace
- 4.4 Personal or impersonal?
- 4.5 God's work alone?
- Topics for discussion
- Acknowledgements
- Further reading
- Index of subjects
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