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Reframing providence : new perspectives from Aquinas on the divine action debate /

The doctrine of providence, which states that God guides his creation, has been widely conceived in action terms in recent theological scholarship. A telling example is the so-called divine action debate, which is largely based on two principles: (i) providence is best conceptualised in terms of div...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kopf, Simon Maria, 1989- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford theology and religion monographs.
Subjects:
Thomas, > Aquinas, Saint, > 1225?-1274.
Thomas, > Aquinas, Saint, > 1225?-1274
Providence and government of God > Christianity > History of doctrines.
Providence divine > Christianisme > Histoire des doctrines.
Religion & beliefs.
Religion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Series page
  • 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.