Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: HISTORY OF THE DOCTRINE OF PROVIDENCE -- Chapter 1 AQUINAS ON THE BOOK OF JOB: PROVIDENCE AND PRESUMPTION -- Chapter 2 PROVIDENCE AND CAUSALITY: ON DIVINE INNOCENCE -- Chapter 3 PROVIDENCE IN 1 SAMUEL -- Chapter 4 HEGEL, THEODICY AND THE INVISIBILITY OF WASTE -- Chapter 5 PROVIDENCE AND COMMON GRACE -- PART II: DOCTRINES OF PROVIDENCE: SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY -- Chapter 6 TIME AND PERSONS IN THE ECONOMY OF GOD -- Chapter 7 THE DOCTRINE OF PROVIDENCE -- Chapter 8 ON THE THEOLOGY OF PROVIDENCE -- PART III: SCIENCE AND PROVIDENCE -- Chapter 9 PROVIDENCE AND THE EVOLUTIONARY PHENOMENON OF 'COOPERATION': A SYSTEMATIC PROPOSAL -- Chapter 10 THE SECULARIZATION OF PROVIDENCE: THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE APPEAL TO DARWINISM IN RECENT ATHEIST APOLOGETICS -- Chapter 11 CREATION, PREDESTINATION AND DIVINE PROVIDENCE -- PART IV: PROVIDENCE, POLITICS AND ETHICS -- Chapter 12 FROM PRUDENTIUS TO PRESIDENT BUSH: PROVIDENCE, EMPIRE AND PARANOIA -- Chapter 13 PROVIDENCE AND POLITICAL DISCERNMENT -- Chapter 14 PATIENCE AND LAMENT: LIVING FAITHFULLY IN THE PRESENCE OF SUFFERING -- Chapter 15 WHY THIS? WHY ME? A THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON ETHICS AND PROVIDENCE -- Chapter 16 THE USES OF PROVIDENCE IN PUBLIC THEOLOGY -- EPILOGUE -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.