Providence Perceived

Divine Action from a Human Point of View
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-11-031056-6
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 124, 334 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 665 g

Reihe: Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte

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.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elliott, Mark W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Mark W. Elliott, University of St Andrews, Schottland, Großbritannien.

Mark W. Elliott, University of St Andrews, Schottland, Großbritannien.