How God Acts: Creation, Redemption, and Special Divine Action

by Denis Edwards

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 2010

Overview

How does the Christian doctrine of creation square with the picture of an evolving universe we receive from science today? How do predatory behavior and the wasteful extinction of whole species fit within a Christian worldview? These and a host of related questions are tackled in this important and original work from theologian Denis Edwards. From providence and miracles to resurrection and intercessory prayer, Edwards shows how a basically noninterventionist model of divine action does justice to the universe as we know it without undermining central convictions of Christian faith about the goodness of God, the promises of God, and the act of creation. Here is wonderfully lucid theology supporting a vision of how God is at work in the universe.

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Key Features

• Explores a noninterventionist model of divine action
• Examines various topics such as providence, miracles, resurrection, and intercessory prayer
• Supports a vision of how God is at work in the universe

Contents

• Characteristics of the Universe Revealed by the Sciences
• Divine Action in the Christ-Event
• Creation as Divine Self-Bestowal
• Special Divine Acts
• Miracles and the Laws of Nature
• The Divine Act of Resurrection
• God’s Redeeming Act: Deifying Transformation
• God’s Redeeming Act: Evolution, Original Sin, and the Lamb of God
• Final Fulfillment: The Deifying Transformation of Creation
• Prayers of Intercession

Product Details

• Title: How God Acts: Creation, Redemption, and Special Divine Action
• Author: Denis Edwards
• Series: Theology and the Sciences
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 224
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Providence and government of God › Christianity
• Resource ID: LLS:HOWGODACTSEDWARDS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T03:55:03Z

About Denis Edwards

Denis Edwards is senior lecturer in systematic theology in the School of Theology of Flinders University. An internationally acclaimed theologian, he is author of many works, including (recently) Ecology at the Heart of Faith and The God of Evolution: A Trinitarian Theology.