God's Will or God's Desires for US: A Change in Worldview?

Taking up the mystery of divine providence, the author suggests that the terms “God's will” and “God's desires” correspond to different understandings of the God-world and God-human relationship. In the former, the focus seems to be on the fulfilment of the unchanging divine plan for creat...

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Main Author: Bracken, Joseph A. 1930- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2010
In: Theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 62-78
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Summary:Taking up the mystery of divine providence, the author suggests that the terms “God's will” and “God's desires” correspond to different understandings of the God-world and God-human relationship. In the former, the focus seems to be on the fulfilment of the unchanging divine plan for creation; in the latter, attention is directed to the strictly contingent decisions of creatures and God's flexibility in somehow ordering them to a higher purpose and goal. Divine providence is active in both cases but in quite different ways.
ISSN:2169-1304
Contains:Enthalten in: Theological studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/004056391007100105