Details are now available for a book I’ve been looking forward to
for a long time:
David Fergusson’s monograph,
The Providence of God: A Polyphonic Approach. Here is the
description courtesy of Cambridge University Press’s website:
The concept of providence is embedded in the life and theology of the
church. Its uses are frequent and varied in understandings of politics, nature,
and individual life-stories. Parallels can be discerned in other faiths.
In this volume, David Fergusson traces the development of providential ideas at
successive periods in church history. These include the early appropriation of
Stoic and Platonic ideas, the codification of providence in the middle ages,
its foregrounding in Reformed theology, and its secular applications in the
modern era. Responses to the Lisbon earthquake (1755) provide an instructive
case study. Although confidence in divine providence was shaken after 1914,
several models were advanced during the twentieth century. Drawing upon this diversity
of approaches, Fergusson offers a chastened but constructive account for the
contemporary church. Arguing for a polyphonic approach, he aims to distribute
providence across all three articles of the faith.
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