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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
Corey L. Barnes, ‘Natural Final Causality and Providence in
Aquinas’, New Blackfriars 95 (2014),
pp. 349–361
Corey L. Barnes, ‘Ordered to the Good: Final Causality and
Analogical Predication in Thomas Aquinas’, Modern
Theology 30:4 (2014), pp. 433–453
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
Ignacio Silva, ‘Thomas Aquinas Holds Fast: Objections to
Aquinas within Today’s Debate on Divine Action’, The Heythrop Journal 54:4 (2013), pp. 658–667
Eleonore Stump, ‘Providence and the Problem of Evil’, in
Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump (eds.), The
Oxford Handbook of Aquinas (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp.
401–417
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)
Tom Greggs, ‘The Lord of All: Rediscovering the Christian
Doctrine of Providence for the World’, with a response from David Clough, in Hannah
Bacon and Wayne Morris with Steve Knowles (eds.), Transforming Exclusion: Engaging Faith Perspectives (London:
T&T Clark, 2011), pp. 44–62
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
John C. McDowell, ‘Idolaters at Providential Prayer:
Calvin’s Praying Through the Divine Governance’, in Myk Habets and Bobby Grow
(eds.), Evangelical Calvinism: Essays
Resourcing the Continuing Reformation of the Church (Eugene, OR: Pickwick
Publications, 2012), pp. 353–403
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)