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Thomas Aquinas
Summa Contra Gentiles, Book Three: Providence (2 vols.), translated, with an introduction and notes, by Vernon J. Bourke (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1975; first pub. c. 1258–1263)
Summa Theologica, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province (Notre Dame: Christian Classics, 1981; first pub. c. 1265–1274), 1a.22, 1a.103–119
Secondary Literature
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
David B. Burrell, Aquinas: God and Action, 2nd ed. (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 2008; 1st ed. 1979)
Brian Davies, The Thought of Thomas Aquinas (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), pp. 158–184
Brian Davies, Aquinas. Outstanding Christian Thinkers (London: Continuum, 2002), pp. 72–79, 105–112
Horton Davies, The Vigilant God: Providence in the Thought of Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin and Barth (New York: Peter Lang, 1992)
Michael T. Dempsey, ‘Providence, Distributive Justice, and Divine Government in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas: Some Implications for Ecclesial Practice’, New Blackfriars 90 (2009), pp. 365–384
Michael A. Hoonhout, ‘Grounding Providence in the Theology of the Creator: The Exemplarity of Thomas Aquinas’, The Heythrop Journal 43 (2002), pp. 1–19
Karl Barth
Church Dogmatics (13 vols.), edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1957–1975), III/3:3–288 (first pub. 1950)
Secondary Literature
Horton Davies, The Vigilant God: Providence in the Thought of Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin and Barth (New York: Peter Lang, 1992)
Christopher C. Green, Doxological Theology: Karl Barth on Divine Providence, Evil and the Angels. T&;T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology (London: T&T Clark, 2011)
Darren M. Kennedy, Providence and Personalism: Karl Barth in Conversation with Austin Farrer, John Macmurray and Vincent Brümmer (Bern: Peter Lang, 2011)
Bruce L. McCormack, ‘The Actuality of God: Karl Barth in Conversation with Open Theism’, in Bruce L. McCormack (ed.), Engaging the Doctrine of God: Contemporary Protestant Perspectives (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008), pp. 185–242
Kathryn Tanner, ‘Creation and Providence’, in John Webster (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 111–126
Laura vander Velden, ‘Karl Barth and the Doctrine of Providence’, Didaskalia 20 (2009), pp. 41–60
W. A. Whitehouse, ‘Providence: An Account of Karl Barth’s Doctrine’, Scottish Journal of Theology 4 (1951), pp. 241–256
John Calvin
The Secret Providence of God, edited by Paul Helm and translated by Keith Goad (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010; first pub. 1558)
Institutes of the Christian Religion (2 vols.), edited by John T. McNeill and translated by Ford Lewis Battles. Library of Christian Classics 20–21 (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1960; first pub. 1559), 1.16–18
Secondary Literature
Oliver D. Crisp, ‘Calvin on Creation and Providence’, in Sung Wook Chung (ed.), John Calvin and Evangelical Theology: Legacy and Prospect. In Celebration of the Quincentenary of John Calvin (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2009), pp. 43–65
Horton Davies, The Vigilant God: Providence in the Thought of Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin and Barth (New York: Peter Lang, 1992)
Paul Helm, ‘Calvin (and Zwingli) on Divine Providence’, Calvin Theological Journal 29 (1994), pp. 388–405
Paul Helm, John Calvin’s Ideas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 93–128
W. J. Torrance Kirby, ‘Stoic and Epicurean? Calvin’s Dialectical Account of Providence in the Institute’, International Journal of Systematic Theology 5 (2003), pp. 309–322
Meng-Chai Ong, John Calvin on Providence: The Locus Classicus in Context (unpublished Ph.D thesis, King’s College London, 2003)
Pieter C. Potgieter, ‘Providence in Calvin: Calvin’s View of God’s Use of Means (media) in His Acts of Providence’, in Anthony N. S. Lane, Jon Balserak and David F. Wright (eds.), Calvinus Evangelii Propugnator: Calvin, Champion of the Gospel (Grand Rapids: CRC Product Services for the Calvin Studies Society, 2006), pp. 175–190
P. H. Reardon, ‘Calvin on Providence: The Development of an Insight’, Scottish Journal of Theology 28 (1975), pp. 517–533
Susan E. Schreiner, The Theater of His Glory: Nature and the Natural Order in the Thought of John Calvin (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1995)
