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Divine Action and Providence

Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics

Author: Oliver D. Crisp and Fred Sanders   Series: Los Angeles Theology Conference Series

Divine Action and Providence: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics represents the proceedings of the Seventh Annual Los Angeles Theology Conference which invited theologians across Christian traditions to contribute their constructive accounts and proposals to this fundamental Christian doctrinal complex.

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Divine Action and Providence: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics represents the proceedings of the Seventh Annual Los Angeles Theology Conference which invited theologians across Christian traditions to contribute their constructive accounts and proposals to this fundamental Christian doctrinal complex.

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Thinking Clearly and Deeply about the Theology of God's Intervention in the World.

The claim that God acts in the world is surely a basic theological claim, but it's one that has been understood in a wide variety of ways in the Christian theological tradition. In some accounts, God appears as the largest, first, and most powerful agent. In others, God is portrayed as the transcendent ground of all finite agency, while never acting on the same plane as other agents...

Divine Action and Providence represents the proceedings of the seventh annual Los Angeles Theology Conference, which invited theologians across Christian traditions to contribute their constructive accounts and proposals to the theology of God's relation to and intervention in the world.

The eleven diverse essays in this collection include discussions on:

  • The particularity and detail of divine action.
  • Recovering the identity of the God of providence.
  • The theological meaning of the course of history.
  • The nature of omnipotence.

Each of the essays collected in this volume engage with Scripture as well as with others in the field—theologians both past and present, from different confessions—in order to provide constructive resources for contemporary systematic theology and to forge a theology for the future.

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About the Author

Oliver D. Crisp (PhD,University of London; DLitt University of Aberdeen) is Professor of Analytic Theology at the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology, St. Mary's College, the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is author of numerous books in analytic and systematic theology, including Analyzing Doctrine: Toward a Systematic Theology; Deviant Calvinism: Broadening Reformed Theology; Divinity and Humanity: The Incarnation Reconsidered; God Incarnate: Explorations in Christology; Retrieving Doctrine: Essays in Reformed Theology; and Revisioning Christology: Theology in the Reformed Tradition. Together with Fred Sanders, he is co-founder of the Los Angeles Theology Conference. Fred Sanders (PhD, Graduate Theological Union) is professor of theology in the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University in La Mirada, California. He is author of numerous books including The Triune God in the New Studies in Dogmatics series; The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything; and Dr. Doctrines' Christian Comix. He is co-editor of Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective: An Introductory Christology and Retrieving Eternal Generation. Fred is a core participant in the Theological Engagement with California's Culture Project and a popular blogger at The Scriptorium Daily.

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The claim that God acts in the world is surely a basic theological claim, but it is one that has been construed in a wide variety of ways in the Christian theological tradition. In some accounts, God appears as the largest, first, and most powerful agent. In others, God is portrayed as the transcendent ground of all finite agency, while never acting on the same plane as other agents. The Christian doctrine of providence demands clear and deep thinking about God's relation to the world, about the nature of omnipotence, and about the theological meaning of the course of history. Ideas of miracle, natural law, intervention, and double agency are all closely linked in this fundamental Christian doctrinal complex. The Seventh Annual Los Angeles Theology Conference invited theologians across Christian traditions to engage the doctrine and to contribute their constructive accounts and proposals to the theology of divine action and providence.

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Publisher
Zondervan | Zondervan Academic
Published
26th December 2019
Pages
240
ISBN
9780310106883

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