The Providence of God: Deus Habet Consilium

INTRODUCTION; 1) HISTORY OF THE DOCTRINE OF PROVIDENCE; Matthew Levering, "Aquinas on the Book of Job: Providence and Presumption"; David Bentley Hart, "Providence and Causality: On Divine Innocence"; Francesca Aran Murphy, "Providence in I Samuel"; Cyril O'Regan, Hegel, "Theodicy, and the Invisibility of Waste"; Andrew McGowan, "Providence and Common Grace"; 2) DOCTRINES OF PROVIDENCE (SYSTEMATICS); Douglas Knight, "Time and Persons in the Economy of God"; Katherine Sonderegger, "The Doctrine of Providence"; John Webster, "On the Theology of Providence"; 3) SCIENCE AND PROVIDENCE; Sarah Coakley, "Providence and the Evolutionary Phenomenon of 'Cooperation': A Systematic Proposal"; Alister McGrath, "The Secularization of providence: Theological Reflections on the Appeal to Darwinism in Recent Atheist Apologetics"; Nicholas J. Healy, "Creation, Predestination and Divine Providence"; 4) PROVIDENCE, POLITICS, ETHICS; Stephen Webb, "From Prudentius to President Bush: Providence, Empire, and Paranoia"; Charles Mathewes, "Providence and Political Discernment"; John Swinton, "Patience and Lament: Living Faithfully in the Presence of Suffering"; Hans S. Reinders, "Why This? Why Me? A Theological Reflection on Ethics and Providence"; Philip Ziegler, "The Uses of Providence in Public Theology"; AFTERWARD; David Fergusson, Epilogue.

Dr Francesca Aran Murphy is Lecturer in Systematic Theology, University of Aberdeen. Philip G Ziegler is a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen

This volume gives a revealing look at the present status of a difficult but essential theological theme. Scholars of systematic and practical theology will be interested in this wide-ranging discussion in, which will also be useful for graduate courses in the topic.--Sanford Lakoff