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: 1 January 2014
Science
Stephen M. Barr, ‘Chance,
By Design: The Scientific Concept of Randomness is Consistent with Divine
Providence’, First Things 228 (2012),
pp. 25–30
David J. Bartholomew, God, Chance and Purpose: Can God Have It
Both Ways? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
R. J. Berry, ‘Divine
Action: Expected and Unexpected’, Zygon
37 (2002), pp. 717–728
Craig A. Boyd and Aaron
D. Cobb, ‘The Causality Distinction, Kenosis, and a Middle Way: Aquinas and
Polkinghorne on Divine Action’, Theology
and Science 7 (2009), pp. 391–406
Rudolf B. Brun, ‘Does God
Play Dice? A Response to Niels H. Gregersen, “The Idea of Creation and the
Theory of Autopoietic Processes”’, Zygon
34 (1999), pp. 93–100
John Byl, ‘Indeterminacy,
Divine Action and Human Freedom’, Science
and Christian Belief 15 (2003), pp. 101–116
Robin Collins, ‘Divine
Action and Evolution’, in Thomas P. Flint and Michael Rea (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical
Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 241–261
William E. Carroll,
‘Divine Agency, Contemporary Physics, and the Autonomy of Nature’, The Heythrop Journal 49 (2008), pp.
582–602
Philip D. Clayton, God and Contemporary Science. Edinburgh
Studies in Constructive Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997)
Philip Clayton and Arthur
Peacocke (eds.), In Whom We Live and Move
and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God's Presence in a Scientific
World (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004)
John W. Cooper,
‘Panentheism: The Other “God of the Philosophers”: An Overview’, American Theological Inquiry 1:1 (2008),
pp. 13–26
Steven D. Crain, ‘Divine
Action in a World Chaos: An Evaluation of John Polkinghorne’s Model of Special
Divine Action’, Faith and Philosophy 14
(1997), pp. 41–61
Jonathan Doye, Ian
Goldby, Christina Line, Stephen Lloyd, Paul Shellard and David Tricker,
‘Contemporary Perspectives on Chance, Providence and Free Will: A Critique of
Some Modern Authors’, Science and
Christian Belief 7 (1995), pp. 117–139
Denis Edwards, ‘Exploring
How God Acts’, in Philip J. Rossi (ed.), God,
Grace, and Creation. College Theology Society, Volume 55 (Maryknoll, NY:
Orbis, 2010), pp. 124–146
Denis Edwards, How God Acts: Creation, Redemption, and
Special Divine Action (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010)
Paul Ewart, ‘The
Necessity of Chance: Randomness, Purpose and the Sovereignty of God’, Science and Christian Belief 21 (2009),
pp. 111–131
David Fergusson, ‘Darwin
and Providence’, in Michael S. Northcott and R. J. Berry (eds.), Theology After Darwin (Milton Keynes:
Paternoster, 2009), pp. 73–88
Langdon Gilkey,
‘Gregersen’s Vision of a Theonomous Universe’, Zygon 34 (1999), pp. 111–115
Niels Henrik Gregersen,
‘The Idea of Creation and the Theory of Autopoietic Processes’, Zygon 33 (1998), pp. 333–367
Niels Henrik Gregersen,
‘Autopoiesis: Less than Self-Constitution, More than Self-Organization: Reply
to Gilkey, McClelland and Deltete, and Brun’, Zygon 34 (1999), pp. 117–138
John F. Haught, ‘Darwin,
Divine Providence and the Suffering of Sentient Life’, in Louis Caruana (ed.), Darwin and Catholicism: The Past and Present
Dynamics of a Cultural Encounter (London: T&T Clark, 2009), pp. 207–222
Christopher C. Knight,
‘Theistic Naturalism and “Special” Divine Providence’, Zygon 44 (2009), pp. 533–542
Robert Larmer, ‘Divine
Agency and the Principle of the Conservation of Energy’, Zygon 44 (2009), pp. 543–557
Robert Larmer, ‘Miracles,
Divine Agency, and the Laws of Nature’, Toronto
Journal of Theology 27:2 (2011), pp. 267–290
Richard T. McClelland and
Robert J. Deltete, ‘Creation, Co-operation, and Causality: A Reply to
Gregersen’, Zygon 34 (1999), pp.
101–109
Donald M. MacKay, Science, Chance, and Providence (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1978)
George Medley, III, ‘The
Inspiration of God and Wolfhart Pannenberg’s “Field Theory of Information”’, Zygon 48:1 (2013), pp. 93–106
George L. Murphy,
‘Kenosis and Divine Action’, Dialog
52:4 (2013), p. 280
Nancey Murphy, ‘Divine
Action, Emergence and Scientific Explanation’, in Peter Harrison (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Science and
Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 244–259
Graham J. O’Brien, ‘A
Theology of Purpose: Creation, Evolution and the Understanding of Purpose’, Science and Christian Belief 19 (2007),
pp. 59–74
Thomas Jay Oord, ‘The
Divine Spirit as Causal and Personal’, Zygon
48:2 (2013), pp. 466–477
James R. Pambrun, ‘Creatio ex nihilo and Dual Causality’,
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. 192–220
Ted Peters and Nathan
Hallanger (eds.), God’s Action in
Nature’s World: Essays in Honour of Robert John Russell (Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2006)
Gregory R. Peterson,
‘God, Determinism, and Action: Perspectives from Physics’, Zygon 35 (2000), pp. 881–890
Harry Lee Poe and Jimmy
H. Davis, God and the Cosmos: Divine
Activity in Space, Time and History (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2012)
John Polkinghorne, Science and Providence: God’s Interaction
with the World (London: SPCK, 1989; 2nd ed. 2005)
John Polkinghorne, ‘Creatio Continua and Divine Action’, Science and Christian Belief 7 (1995),
pp. 101–108
Robert John Russell,
Nancey Murphy and C. J. Isham (eds.), Quantum
Cosmology and the Laws of Nature: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (Vatican
City State: Vatican Observatory Publications, 1996, 1993)
Robert John Russell, Nancey
Murphy and Arthur R. Peacocke (eds.), Chaos
and Complexity: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, 2nd ed. (Vatican
City State: Vatican Observatory Publications, 1997/2000; 1st ed. 1995)
Robert John Russell,
‘Quantum Physics and the Theology of Non-Interventionist Objective Divine
Action’, in Philip Clayton (ed.), The
Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2006), pp. 579–595
Timothy Sansbury, ‘The
False Promise of Quantum Mechanics’, Zygon
42 (2007), pp. 111–121
Nicholas Saunders, Divine Action and Modern Science (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Ignacio Silva, ‘John
Polkinghorne on Divine Action: A Coherent Theological Evolution’, Science and Christian Belief 24:1
(2012), pp. 19–30
Taede A. Smedes, ‘Is Our
Universe Deterministic? Some Philosophical and Theological Reflections on an
Elusive Topic’, Zygon 38
(2003), pp. 955–979
Edgar A. Towne, ‘The
Variety of Panentheisms’, Zygon 40
(2005), pp. 779–786
Thomas F. Tracy,
‘Theologies of Divine Action’, in Philip Clayton (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2006), pp. 596–611
Thomas F. Tracy, ‘Divine
Purpose and Evolutionary Processes’, Zygon
48:2 (2013), pp. 454–465
Robert E. Ulanowicz, ‘A
World of Contingencies’, Zygon 48:1
(2013), pp. 77–92
Howard J. Van Till,
‘Basil, Augustine, and the Doctrine of Creation’s Functional Integrity’, Science and Christian Belief 8 (1996),
pp. 21–38
David Wilkinson, ‘The
Activity of God in Methodist Perspective’, in Clive Marsh, Brian Beck, Angela
Shier-Jones and Helen Wareing (eds.), Unmasking
Methodist Theology, (London: Continuum, 2004), pp. 142–154
Terry J. Wright, ‘Is
Informational Causality Primary Causality? A Study of an Aspect of John
Polkinghorne’s Account of Divine Action’, in Fraser Watts and Christopher C.
Knight (eds.), God and the Scientist:
Exploring the Work of John Polkinghorne. Ashgate Science and Religion
Series (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 33–50
Amos Yong, The Spirit of Creation: Modern Science and
Divine Action in the Pentecostal-Charismatic Imagination. Pentecostal
Manifestos 4 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011)
