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Disability, Providence, and Ethics
Human disability raises the hardest questions of human existence and leads directly to the problem of causality - the underlying intuition that someone, divine or human, must have been at fault.Christian theology has responded with almost singular attention to Providence, the expression of divine will in the world as the cause of all things. This preoccupation holds captive the Christian imagination, leaving the Church ill equipped to engage the human reality of disability. Theological reflection, argues Hans Reinders, can arise only as a second-order activity that follows after real attention to the experience of disability.Disability, Providence, and Ethics offers a more excellent way to address this difficult subject. Reinders guides readers away from an identification of disability with tragedy - via lament - to the possibility of theological hope and its expression of God's presence. In particular, Reinders reconsiders two of the main traditional sources in Christian thought about Providence, the biblical text of Job and the theological work of John Calvin. Throughout the book, first-person accounts of disability open up biblical texts and Christian theology - rather than the other way around. In the end, a theology of Providence begins with the presence of the Spirit, not with the problem of causality.
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Trusting God
Over 500,000 copies sold
\"Why is God allowing this? What have I done wrong?\"
Many of us have asked these questions when life hits us hard. When our circumstances defy explanation, it is difficult to untangle our emotions from the truth. Before long, we feel confused and frustrated. We doubt His care for us. We wonder how He could allow these struggles at all, or if He is really in control.
During a time of darkness and adversity in his own life, Jerry Bridges dug deep into the Bible for theological answers on God's sovereignty. What he learned changed his life?and it will change yours too. Find the answers to some of your most heartfelt questions, such as:
* Is God in control?
* Can I trust God?
* What is our responsibility when things are hard?
* How can I grow through adversity?
* And more
Explore the scope of God's care and control over nations, nature, and the tiny details of your life. You'll find yourself inspired to trust Him more completely?moving through heartache and into hope even when life hurts. Now with an added study guide for personal use or group discussion, you can dive deeper and experience spiritual growth with this staple of Jerry Bridges's classic collection.
\"The writings of Jerry Bridges are a gift to the church. He addresses a relevant topic with the wisdom of a scholar and the heart of a servant.\" ?Max Lucado, pastor and bestselling author
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Providence Perceived
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.
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Eschatological Faith? Or Faith in Fatherly Providence? Fear and Trembling and the Fatherhood of God
Comprehending Fear and Trembling is no small task: the best that can be done is to pull at one thread at a time to slowly illuminate the whole. One such thread is the Fatherhood of God. Kierkegaard gave the pseudonymous Fear and Trembling with his left hand and the Upbuilding Discourses with his right hand. What can we conclude about the interplay between Fear and Trembling and these discourses? One outcome is a movement toward the Fatherhood of God. The anxiety of walking with Abraham to Moriah is supposed to lead the reader to maturely consider what it might mean to live in the world confident of the presence and purpose of God the Father. I propose we see Abraham holding not an “eschatological faith”, but a faith in Fatherly providence. Kierkegaard understood his own complex life as held together by the Fatherly kindness of God or God’s Governance.
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Divine Providence and Human Agency
Divine Providence and Human Agency develops an understanding of God and God's relation to creation that perceives God as sovereign over creation while, at the same time, allowing for a meaningful notion of human freedom. This book provides a bridge between contemporary approaches that emphasise human freedom, such as process theology and those influenced by it, and traditional theologies that stress divine omnipotence.This book argues that it is essential for Christian theology to maintain that God is ultimately in charge of history: otherwise there would be no solid grounds for Christian hope. Yet, the modern human self-understanding as free agent within certain limitations must be taken seriously. Jensen approaches this apparent contradiction from within a consistently trinitarian framework. Jensen argues that a Christian understanding of God must be based on the experience of the saving presence of Christ in the Church, leading to an apophatic and consistently trinitarian theology. This serves as the framework for the discussion of divine omnipotence and human freedom. On the basis of the theological foundation established in this book, it is possible to frame the problem in a way that makes it possible to live within this tension. Building on this foundation, Jensen develops an understanding of history as the unfolding of the divine purpose and as an expression of God's very being, which is self-giving love and desire for communion. This book offers an important contribution to the debate of the doctrine of God in the context of an evolutionary universe.
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The providence of God : Deus habet consilium
'The Providence of God' is a comprehensive analysis of the doctrine of providence, from historical, philosophical-theological, systematic and practical perspectives.
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Providence and the Invention of American History
How providential history-the conviction that God is an
active agent in human history-has shaped the American historical
imagination In 1847, Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman
was killed after a disastrous eleven-year effort to evangelize the
indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. By 1897, Whitman was a
national hero, celebrated in textbooks, monuments, and historical
scholarship as the \"Savior of Oregon.\" But his fame was based on a
tall tale-one that was about to be exposed. Sarah Koenig traces the
rise and fall of Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman's legend,
revealing two patterns in the development of American history. On
the one hand is providential history, marked by the conviction that
God is an active agent in human history and that historical work
can reveal patterns of divine will. On the other hand is objective
history, which arose from the efforts of Catholics and other racial
and religious outsiders to resist providentialists' pejorative
descriptions of non†'Protestants and nonwhites. Koenig examines how
these competing visions continue to shape understandings of the
American past and the nature of historical truth.
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The Uncontrolling Love of God
IVP Readers' Choice Award
Rarely does a new theological position emerge to account well for life in the world, including not only goodness and beauty but also tragedy and randomness. Drawing from Scripture, science, philosophy and various theological traditions, Thomas Jay Oord offers a novel theology of providence—essential kenosis—that emphasizes God's inherently noncoercive love in relation to creation. The Uncontrolling Love of God provides a clear and powerful response to one of the perennial challenges to Christian faith.
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