The Vigilant God : Providence in the Thought of Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Barth, Second Edition - Marie-Hélène Davies

The Vigilant God

Providence in the Thought of Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Barth, Second Edition

By: Marie-Hélène Davies, Horton Davies

eBook | 27 September 2022 | Edition Number 2

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The Vigilant God by Horton Davies, a non-conformist minister who taught in the Religion Department of Princeton University and attended church regularly, is a reconsideration of the belief that God is still active in history. It is a reassessment of the theology of Providence in the thought of four major Christian theologians (Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Barth) and of their views on predestination, theodicy, and free will, leading the author to consider the role it might have for the future of humanity.

The book starts with a sketch of the biblical sources relating to Providence, predestination, election, and reprobation. Davies sees Augustine's doctrine of Providence and his view of evil as privatio boni, as greatly influenced by Plato and his followers. He dwells on Aquinas the man, his life and his character, open to Aristotle and his Jewish and Arab commentators, before plunging into the structure of his encyclopedic thought and works. Davies appreciates Calvin's regard for Scripture as a means of illumination of the Spirit, but rejects the pastor's views on predestination as tyrannical and unjust, and believes that Barth's positive insistence on God's universal mercy is necessary against the horrors perpetrated in the twentieth century.

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"'Providence,' God's careful ruling the course of the world and the life of every person, is one of the most underestimated topics in contemporary theology and philosophy of religion but eminently significant when people must face disturbing times and inscrutable incidents. Horton Davies, the internationally renowned theologian and historian, evaluates in his comprehensive comparison four outstanding conceptions, clarifies misleading ideas, and rediscovers indispensable questions to be answered in trustworthy ways."-Gerhard Sauter, Professor Emeritus of Systematic and Ecumenical Theology, University of Oxford
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