Elwood, Douglas J.

Living by faith or by fate : God's will and man's option / Douglas J. Elwood. - Quezon City, Phils. : New Day Publishers, c2004. - viii, 197 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:
1. "Thy will be Done"
- Students opinion survey
- Moral breakdown
- On doing the will of God
- The quest for meaning
2. Faith in Providence
- Predestination and providence
- Faith or fate?
- Freedom and/or destiny
- God's will- a vision to be realized
3. God interacting with the world
- sovereignty as invincible love
- destiny in the hands of a loving God
- loving parent or autocratic monarch?
- Does God ever really change?
4. God's circumstantial will
- knowledge of the future?
- student opinion survey
- the circumstantial will of God
- do miracles still happen|?
5. Discerning the will of God
- Jesus' formula for the good life
- Ways of seeking to know God's will
6. What God requires of us
- Great expectations
- The peace that God wills
7. Evil and a loving God
- The human predicament
- Are human beings accident-prone
- a world-in-the-making
- overcoming evil with good
- the law of moral consequence
- unequal justice
8. The will to do the will of God
- are we willing to do God's will
- occupation as vocation
- marriage as covenant
- Does prayer really change things?
- God is waiting for our answer

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FAITH
THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES
CHRISTIAN LIFE

BT 770 / El88 2004