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On the part of God, divine Providence is a sovereign affirmation of the whole of creation and, in particular, of man's pre-eminence among creatures. Providence constitutes the fundamental guarantee of the sovereignty of man himself in regard to the world.
In this context I briefl y take up the work of Jürgen Moltmann and assess his understanding of divine creation as a creatio ex amore. The third and fi nal problem is the separation between creation and providence, between orig-inal creation and continuing creation. Here I briefl y treat Schleiermacher’s account of creation in his Glaubenslehre.
Aug 1, 2001 · Traditional theism holds that God is the creator of heaven and earth, and that all that occurs in the universe takes place under Divine Providence — that is, under God’s sovereign guidance and control. According to believers, God governs creation as a loving father, working all things for good.
Jun 30, 2015 · There seems to be a renewal of theological emphasis today on the historical view of creatio continua (continual creation), referred to by some theologians as the doctrine of providence. Providence is the triune God's activity in preserving creatures and bringing about their fruitfulness and ongoing diversity.
The core of Aquinas’ teaching on providence, a preliminary definition of which is ordinare in finem (SCG III, 73)1, is that providence reaches the whole of the natural world, closely following his own doctrine of creatio ex nihilo, by which Aquinas explains the complete dependence in being and acting of those beings that are not the Creator.
The paper presents a concise reconstruction of Aquinas’s doctrine of providence, a short dossier on the main Thomistic debate on it and some suggestions for the future research and presentations of this doctrine.
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Part II, ‘Providential Aspects of Creatio Ex Nihilo’ (chapters 7– 9) concerns the notion of divine providence, critically evaluates influential theories of it and explores the implications for the notion of providence of Robson’s preferred account of possibility and the divine powers.
