Providence and Prayer How Does God Work in the World?

Name: Providence and Prayer How Does God Work in the World?
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ISBN: 9780830815784

ISBN-10: 0830815783

ISBN-13: 9780830815784

Edition: 2000

Authors: Terrance L. Tiessen

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Recipient of an Honourable Mention in the 2001 God Uses Ink Contest!"Lord, please give me a parking space!"That prayer sounds right on your third time around the block, frustrated and late for an appointment. But is it consistent with how God works in the world?Does prayer change God's mind or only our feelings? Does God do things because we ask him to? Or do we ask him because he prompts us to do so? How much control does God really have in the world, anyway? If he has given us free will, can he always guarantee that things will happen as he intends or wishes? Is our need for parking spaces important enough to bother God, or is he only concerned about things that advance his program of…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 4/26/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



Introduction



Ten Models of Providence & Prayer



The Semi-Deist Model



The Process Model



The Openness Model (1)



The Openness Model (2)



The Church Dominion Model



The Redemptive Intervention Model



The Molinist Model



The Thomist Model



The Barthian Model



The Calvinist Model



The Fatalist Model



One More Model Proposed



A Middle Knowledge Calvinist Model of Providence



A Middle Knowledge Calvinist Model of Prayer


Appendix: A Comparative Chart of the Eleven Models


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index