Description
Book SynopsisFollowing the rise of the natural sciences and their theories about the world, questions exist about how God can be understood to act in such a world. This text contains philosophical and theological explorations of the idea that God acts in history, a topic central to theistic traditions.
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Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction/Thomas F. Tracy
Part I Particular Divine Action: Providence and the Problem of Evil
1. Divine Action: Some Moral Considerations/ Maurice Wiles
Response 1. Theodicy and Divine Intervention/ Robert Merrihew Adams
2. Divine Action: Shadow or Substance?/ William P. Alston
Response 2. Alternative Conceptions of God/ James M. Gustafson
Part II Universal Divine Action: Creation, Human Freedom,and Sin
3. Divine Action, Created Causes, and Human Freedom/ Thomas F. Tracy
Response 3. Divine Action and Human Freedom in the Context of Creation/ David B. Burrell, C.S.C.
4. Human Freedom, Human Sin, and God the Creator/ Kathryn E. Tanner
Response 4. God the Creator of Good and Evil?/ William Hasker
Index
