The Uncontrolling Love of God – An Open and Relational Account of Providence

Thomas Jay Oord (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

229 Seiten

2015
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-4084-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Thomas Jay Oord (PhD, Claremont Graduate University) is professor of theology and philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho. He has written or edited more than a dozen books, including Defining Love: A Philosophical, Scientific, and Theological Engagement. He is an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene.

Acknowledgments

1. Tragedy Needs Explanation

2. The Randomness and Regularities of Life

3. Agency and Freedom in a World of Good and Evil

4. Models of God?s Providence

5. The Open and Relational Alternative

6. Does Love Come First?

7. The Essential-Kenosis Model of Providence

8. Miracles and God?s Providence

Postscript

Index

Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	343 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8308-4084-2 / 0830840842
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-4084-7 / 9780830840847
Zustand	Neuware