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Purpose and Providence - Taking Soundings in Western Thought, Literature and Theology (Hardcover)
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Purpose and Providence - Taking Soundings in Western Thought, Literature and Theology (Hardcover)
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Do our lives have purpose? Despite the rise of secularism, we are
still confronted by a sense of meaning and direction in the events
of history and our own lives - something which is beyond us and not
our own creation/imagination. Using the novels of Thomas Hardy and
Julian Barnes, Vernon White tracks this belief in intellectual
history and tests its resilience in modern literature. Both
novelists portray modern and late-modern scenarios where, although
the idea of an objective purpose has been deconstructed, it still
haunts the protagonists. Using literature as the starting point,
the discussion moves on to an exploration of this belief in its
theological form, through the doctrine of providence. White
critically reviews the classic canon of providence and its pressure
points - the problems in divine causality, the metaphysical
assumptions required in its acceptance, and the contradictions to
be found between God's purpose and the metanarratives of history.
Using Barth and Frei, White suggests new ways of re-imagining
divine providence to take account of these issues. The credibility
of this re-defined providence is then tested against scripture,
experience and praxis, with the result being an understanding of
providence that does not rely on empirical progress.
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