The Invisible Hand: Do All Things Really Work for Good?

  • Year 1996
  • Type Book
  • Genre theology
  • Tradition Reformed
  • Original language English

For For Christians asking how God governs the world, including in suffering; not for a philosophical treatise on providence.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
4 of 5 strongly recommended
For the researcher
2 of 5 useful
Difficulty
2 of 5 moderate

The doctrine of providence, including its hardest pastoral cases.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 3 of 5
  • Scriptural 4 of 5
  • Experiential 3 of 5
  • Sociological 1 of 5
  • Historical 2 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Published by Word in 1996 and by P&R in 2003. Sproul covers the doctrine of divine providence and argues that God is concerned with every detail of the universe, taking up the hard cases where human anguish meets divine providence.

Catalog IDW.YHXDS0.E

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