Expanded Table of Contents

This is the expanded Table of Contents for the book God’s Active Preservation of the World:

Introduction

• Chapter 1: Four Dimensional Creation

  • God Creating Outside of Time

  • God’s Relationship to Time

  • Creation of Man with Free Will

  • God’s Active Preservation of the World

  • An Old Testament Example: The Deluge

  • A New Testament Example: The Foretelling of Peter’s Denial

  • Before the Foundation of the World

  • While We Were Still Sinners

  • Putting It All Together

• Chapter 2: C. S. Lewis’ Time Models Adapted

  • Time and Beyond Time

  • On “Special Providences”

• Chapter 3: Other Views Examined

  • Absolute Immutability

    • Scriptural considerations

    • Types of immutability

  • Deism and Calvinism

  • Counterfactuals of Creaturely Freedom

  • The Middle-Knowledge View (Molinism)

• Chapter 4: Jesus

Conclusion

• Further Reading

Appendix A: The Large Catechism, The Apostles’ Creed, Article I

Appendix B: Answering the Three Questions

Bibliography