Providence Made Flesh (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781608991600)

Traditional discussions of the Christian doctrine of providence often center on the relation between divine agency and human freedom, seeking to offer an account of the extent to which a person is free before God, the first cause of all things. Terry J. Wright argues that such riddles of causation cannot determine the content of providence, and suggests a unique and alternative framework that depicts God's activity in terms of divine faithfulness to that which God has made. Providence is not God as first cause acting through creaturely secondary causation; rather, providence is God's sovereign mediation of the divine presence across the whole world, achieved through creaturely faithfulness made possible and guaranteed by his own faithful action in Jesus Christ.

Author: Terry J. Wright
ISBN-10: 1608991601
ISBN-13: 9781608991600
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 294
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d