How God Acts: Creation, Redemption, and Special Divine Action

How does the Christian doctrine of creation square with the picture of an evolving universe we receive from science today? How do the baldly predatory behavior and wasteful extinction of whole species fit in a Christian understanding? How does miraculous divine action, pictured so vividly in the biblical narratives, square with the inexorable march of the laws of physics? How does a God of love permit so much death and destruction?

These and a host of related questions raised by ordinary exp...