God in Action (Problems in Theology)
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This reader brings together carefully selected material from a wide range of authors on the meaning and status of divine action. It samples the recent literature on providence, miracle, prayer and grace together with some relevant classical texts.
Topics include locating God's action, images of divine control, human freedom in relation to providence and grace, the nature of and evidence of miracle, prayer and pain, answers to prayer, and the experience of grace.
Contributors include Peter Baelz, Karl Barth, Vincent Brummer, David Hume, David Jenkins, C. S. Lewis, Helen Oppenheimer, D. Z. Phillips, Karl Rahner, Paul Tillich, Thomas Tracy, Victor White and Maurice Wiles.
David Brown
David Brown (MA Oxon) is an Associate Professor at Adelaide Law School. He has taught and researched in the areas of property and insolvency, corporate and commercial law, equity, succession, and secured transactions for over thirty years in four countries. He has authored and co-authored leading works on land law, insolvency law and (with A Duggan) Australian Personal Property Securities Law (Lexis Nexis, 2nd ed, 2016). David has advised the New Zealand government and New Zealand Law Commission on insolvency law and has been a consultant to the Australian Financial Security Authority on the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth).
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