How God acts : creation, redemption, and special divine action - Edwards, Denis, 1943- (Minneapolis [Minn.] : Fortress Press, 2010)
Foreword / by William R. Stoeger -- Introduction -- Characteristics of the universe revealed by the sciences -- A universe that evolves at all levels -- A universe constituted by patterns of relationship -- A universe where natural processes have their own integrity -- A directional universe -- The cost of evolution -- Divine action in the Christ-event -- Jesus' vision of divine action : the reign of God -- Parables of divine action -- Healing -- The open table -- The community of disciples -- Divine action for Jesus -- Divine action in the light of the whole Christ-event -- God who lovingly waits upon creation -- The vulnerability of divine love -- Creation as divine self-bestowal -- The specific and historical character of divine acts -- Creation as the self-bestowal of God -- Enabling and empowering evolutionary emergence -- Noninterventionist divine action -- Enabling creaturely autonomy to flourish -- Divine action that accepts the limits of creaturely processes -- Creating through chance and lawfulness -- Special divine acts -- Special acts in the providential guidance of creation -- Approaches to special divine acts -- Divine action through secondary causes -- God's special acts in evolutionary emergence -- The dynamism and the creaturely limits of special divine acts -- Special divine acts in the life of grace -- Experiences of the Holy Spirit -- Personal providence -- Disruptive grace -- Special divine acts in the history of salvation -- Mediation by created realities -- Sacramental structure of special divine acts -- Miracles and the laws of nature -- The miracles of Jesus -- Aquinas on the dignity of secondary causes -- The laws of nature -- A theological approach -- The divine act of resurrection -- Resurrection : a free act of God from within creation that gives creation its deepest meaning -- Central expression of God's act of self-bestowal -- Evolutionary christology -- Sacrament of salvation -- Resurrection as ontological transformation -- Resurrection expressed in creation through secondary causes -- Experience of the risen Christ in the Christian community today -- The Easter appearances -- The eschatological transformation of creation -- God's redeeming act : deifying transformation -- Redemption and deification through incarnation in Athanasius -- The God-creation relationship -- The central place of Christ's death and resurrection -- Deification in Christ -- Exploring a theology of redemption as deifying transformation -- The deifying transformation of human beings -- The deifying transformation of the material universe -- The deifying transformation of the biological world -- A participatory theology of redemption -- God's redeeming act : evolution, original sin, and the Lamb of God -- The scapegoat mechanism -- Evolutionary science on human emergence -- Original grace and original sin in evolutionary history -- The end of scapegoating and the beginning of new creation -- Final fulfilment : the deifying transformation of creation -- We hope for what we do not see : God as absolute future -- Hope for the whole creation in the New Testament : Romans 8:18-25 -- Hope for the universe in patristic tradition : Maximus the Confessor -- The deification of the universe : Karl Rahner -- The deification of matter -- Radical transformation -- Real continuity -- Hope for the animals -- Prayers of intercession -- God wants our participation -- Sharing what matters with the beloved -- Entrusting ourselves to God -- Prayer as desire for God.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Providence and government of God -- Christianity