My
intention here is to provide an extensive bibliography of resources for the
doctrine of providence. This is an ongoing project, so do contact me if you
know of any works that should be included, or if you wish for me to make an
amendment or correct an error.
Last Updated: 25
May 2013
Philosophy
David B. Burrell, Freedom
and Creation in Three Traditions (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame
Press, 1993)
Richard Cross, ‘The Eternity of the World and the Distinction
Between Creation and Conservation’, Religious
Studies 42 (2006), pp. 403–416
David Cunning, ‘Malebranche and Occasional Causes’, Philosophy Compass 3 (2008), pp. 471–490
Thomas P. Flint, ‘Divine Providence’, in Thomas P. Flint and
Michael Rea (eds.), The Oxford Handbook
of Philosophical Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp.
262–285
Alfred J. Freddoso (ed.), The Existence and Nature of God. University of Notre Dame Studies
in the Philosophy of Religion 3 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press,
1983)
Brian L. Hebblethwaite, ‘Providence and Divine Action’, Religious Studies 14:2 (1978), pp.
223–236
Darren M. Kennedy, Providence
and Personalism: Karl Barth in Conversation with Austin Farrer, John
Macmurray and Vincent Brümmer (Bern:
Peter Lang, 2011)
Matthew Levering, ‘Providence and Predestination in
Al-Ghazali’, New Blackfriars 92
(2011), pp. 55–70
Daniel Lim, ‘Why Not Overdetermination?’, The Heythrop Journal 54:4 (2013), pp.
668–677
Timothy D. Miller, ‘On the Distinction Between Creation and
Conservation: A Partial Defence of Continuous Creation’, Religious Studies 45 (2009), pp. 471–485
Timothy D. Miller, ‘Continuous Creation and Secondary
Causation: The Threat of Occasionalism’, Religious
Studies 47 (2011), pp. 3–22
Thomas V. Morris (ed.), Divine
and Human Action: Essays in the Metaphysics of Theism (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1988)
Andrew Pessin, ‘Does Continuous Creation Entail
Occasionalism? Malebranche (and Descartes)’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 30 (2000), pp. 413–439
Mark Ian Thomas Robson, Ontology
and Providence in Creation: Taking Ex Nihilo Seriously (London: Continuum, 2008)
Thomas F. Tracy, ‘God and Creatures Acting: The Idea of
Double Agency’, in David B. Burrell, Carlo Cogliati, Janet M. Soskice and
William R. Stoeger, Creation and the God
of Abraham (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 221–237
David Vander Laan, ‘Persistence and Divine Conservation’, Religious Studies 42 (2006), pp. 159–176
Leigh C. Vicens, ‘On the Possibility of Special Divine
Action in a Deterministic World’, Religious
Studies 48:3 (2012), pp. 315–336
Eric Timothy Yang, ‘Conservation, Discontinuous Time, and
Causal Continuity’, Religious Studies
45 (2009), pp. 85–93