How Does Prayer "Work" within God's providence? Does prayer change us and not God? Is God active only at the big-picture level of salvation history? Or does God risk granting us freedom to ask or not ask, and then respond to us as we pray?

From the extreme that God does not intervene in the world to its opposite that God is the only effective agent in the working of his will, Terrance Tiessen identifies ten views of providence, to which he adds an eleventh, his own. Each view of providence is presented and explained fairly and objectively. For each theology of providence the question is tackled, If this is the way God works in the world, how then should we pray?

Providence & Prayer puts us at the intersection between theological reflection and our life and conversation with God. It is a book that prods and sharpens our understanding, making us better theologians and better prayers.