Editorial

Divine Providence and Models of Theism

Abstract

The present special issue is a direct result of the research project Providence and Free Will in the Models of Classical Theism and Analytic Theism (PROLITECA: PID2021-122633NB-100), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain, which sought to address this gap by articulating two central and interconnected hypotheses. The first is that theories of divine providence and human freedom are partly shaped by meta-theological frameworks, including methodological approaches such as Perfect Being Theology, as well as more general views about the aims, scope, and limits of philosophical theology. The second is that different accounts of providence both presuppose and inform distinct pictures of God, especially with respect to divine attributes such as simplicity, immutability, impassibility, which are specific to Classical Theism. Together, these two dimensions suggest that debates about providence cannot be adequately assessed in isolation from broader questions about method and about the nature of God.