Smith, K: The Modified Wisdom View of Guidance

While evangelical Christians seem to agree that Godguides his people, they are far from reaching aconsensus on precisely how God guides. This bookhelpfully identifies and evaluates three evangelicalpositions on the subject of guidance and defends whatis here called the modified wisdom view. In contrastto both the blueprint and wisdom views, whichmaintain, respectively, that God always and nevergives special, personalized messages of guidance, themodified wisdom view argues that special guidance ispossible, but not promised, for Christians today.Instead, God intends for Christians to make decisionsnormatively by studying and wisely applyingScripture. Smith argues that a theology of guidancethat takes into account doctrines such as divineprovidence and the sufficiency of Scripture willproduce some much-needed clarity on the subject.Interacting with contemporary authors as well as theReformers, Smith concludes with practical applicationand three challenges for evangelicals. A helpful workfor scholars and pastors alike, this book promises toadvance the conversation regarding divine guidance.