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Four Views on Divine Providence (Paperback)
William Lane Craig, Ron Highfield, Gregory A Boyd, Paul Kjoss Helseth; Edited by (general) Dennis Jowers; Series edited by …
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Questions about divine providence have preoccupied Christians for
generations: to what degree does God concern himself with and
intervene in the affairs of everyday life? This book introduces
readers to four prevailing views on divine providence, with
particular attention to the questions of human free will, the
problem of evil, and God's perception of time. Volume contributors
and their basic viewpoints are: Paul Helseth - God causes every
creaturely event that occurs. William Lane Craig - through his
"middle knowledge," God controls the course of worldly affairs
without predetermining any creatures' free decisions. Ron Highfield
- God controls creatures by liberating their decision-making.
Gregory Boyd - human decisions can be free only if God neither
determines nor knows what they will be. Introductory and closing
essays by Dennis Jowers give relevant background and guide readers
toward their own informed beliefs about divine providence. Four
Views on Divine Providence helps readers think theologically and
biblically about all the issues involved in exploring this
doctrine. The point-counterpoint format reveals the assumptions and
considerations that drive equally learned and sincere theologians
to disagreement with each other. It unearths the genuinely decisive
issues beneath a philosophically dense debate. The Counterpoints
series presents a comparison and critique of scholarly views on
topics important to Christians that are both fair-minded and
respectful of the biblical text. Each volume is a one-stop
reference that allows readers to evaluate the different positions
on a specific issue and form their own, educated opinion.
In this scholarly and accessible volume, Ron Highfield presents an
overview of creation, providence and the problem of evil. He
explores a wide range of issues, including the biblical accounts of
creation, the dialogue between theology and science, models of
providence, philosophical problems of evil and the proposals of
open theism and process theism.
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The New Adam (Hardcover)
Ron Highfield; Foreword by Thomas H Olbricht
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The New Adam (Paperback)
Ron Highfield; Foreword by Thomas H Olbricht
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A Consuming Passion (Hardcover)
Christopher M. Date, Ron Highfield; Foreword by Stephen Travis
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Does God's all-encompassing will restrict our freedom? Does God's
ownership and mastery over us diminish our dignity? The fear that
God is a threat to our freedom and dignity goes far back in Western
thought. Such suspicion remains with us today in our so-called
secular society. In such a context any talk of God tends to provoke
responses that range from defiance to subservience to indifference.
How did Western culture come to this place? What impact does this
social and intellectual environment have on those who claim to
believe in God or more specifically in the Christian God of the
Bible? Professor of religion Ron Highfield traces out the
development of Western thought that has led us our current frame of
mind from Plato, Augustine and Descartes through Locke, Kant, Blake
Bentham, Hegel, Nietzsche--all the way down to Charles Taylor's
landmark work Sources of the Self. At the heart of the issue is the
modern notion of the autonomous self and the inevitable crisis it
provokes for a view of human identity, freedom and dignity found in
God. Can the modern self really secure its own freedom, dignity and
happiness? What alternative do we have? Highfield makes pertinent
use of trinitarian theology to show how genuine Christian faith
responds to this challenge by directing us to a God who is not in
competition with his human creations, but rather who provides us
with what we seek but could never give ourselves. God, Freedom and
Human Dignity is essential reading for Christian students who are
interested in the debates around secularism, modernity and identity
formation.
In imitation of classic tradition, Great is the Lord sets out the
Christian doctrine of God in a way designed to illumine the mind,
move the heart, and stir the soul to praise the triune God. Here,
Ronald Highfield introduces students, ministers, and others to the
doctrine of God held by the majority of the church from the second
to the twentieth century. This traditional opinion reveals God to
be triune, loving, merciful, gracious, patient, wise, one, simple,
omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, omnipresent, immutable,
impassible, and glorious.
Highfield draws on scripture, tradition, and widely esteemed
theologians to correct common misunderstandings and superficial
criticisms. He examines the modern practice, even among evangelical
or conservatives, of first rehearsing the shortcomings of
"traditional" theological teaching and then claiming that classical
doctrines paint God as uncaring, uninvolved, and a threat to human
freedom. Great is the Lord revisits this classic doctrine so
accused to discover that, far from being the creator of such an
unpleasant god, it actually preserves our confidence in God's love
and his liberating action better than its opponents do. That
traditional doctrine, Highfield argues, grounds our dignity and
freedom in the center of reality, the Trinitarian life of God.
Highfield's work here maintains the highest intellectual
standards, while offering a true theology for the praise of
God.
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