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“Behold, I make all things new”
“In this marvelous book, Denis Edwards, a key contributor to theology and science’ today, demonstrates how our understanding of God’s special action in the world- such as the incarnation, resurrection, miracles, God’s answering prayer can be given fresh and invigorating illumination as ‘non-interventionist’ and participatory.
The result is the beginning of a consistent integrated model of divine action with natural sciences. Edwards’s book should be required reading for scholars and non-technical readers interested in the growing dialogue between theology and science.”
-ROBERT JOHN RUSSELL
Director, Center for Theology and the Natural
Sciences, Graduate Theological Union
How does the Christian doctrine of creation square with the picture of an evolving universe we receive from science today? How do the baldly predatory behavior and wasteful extinction of whole species fit in a Christian understanding? How does miraculous divine action, pictured so vividly in the biblical narratives, square with the inexorable march of the laws of physics? How does a God of love permit so much death and destruction?
These and a host of related questions raised by ordinary experience are tackled in this important and original work from theologian Denis Edwards re-conceiving divine action. From providence and miracles resurrection and intercessory prayer, Edwards shows how a basically noninterventionist model of divine action does justice to the universe as we know it yet also to central convictions of Christian faith about the goodness of God, the promises of God, and the fulfillment of creation. Here is wonderfully lucid theology supporting a convincing vision of just how God is at work in the universe.
Denis Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology in the School of Theology of Flinders University. An internationally acclaimed theologian, he is author of many works, including recently Ecology at the Heart of Faith (2006) and The God of Evolution: A Trinitarian Theology (1999)
