Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One. Divine Causality and the Natural World
5. 1. Divine Conservation and the Persistence of the World 13
6. 2. Divine Conservation, Secondary Causes, and Occasionalism 50
7. 3. Medieval Aristotelianism and the Case against Secondary Causation in Nature 74
8. 4. Individual Essence and the Creation 119
9. Part Two. Providence and Creaturely Action
10. 5. Two Accounts of Providence 147
11. 6. God's Freedom, Human Freedom, and God's Responsibility for Sin 182
12. 7. The Place of Chance in a World Sustained by God 211
13. 8. Freedom and Actuality 236
14. Part Three. The Nature of the Divine Agent
15. 9. Divine and Human Action 257
16. 10. Being and Goodness 281
17. 11. Divine Necessity and Divine Goodness 313
18. 12. How Does God Know the Things He Knows? 345
19. Contributors 363
20. Index 365