Providence Perceived : : Divine Action from a Human Point of View / / Mark W. Elliott.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Elliott, Mark W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte , 124
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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