Simon Maria Kopf is Associate Professor of Fundamental Theology at ITI Catholic University and Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. Previously, he was Principal Investigator on a Templeton project titled 'A Virtue-Based Approach to Providence: Bridging the Analytic/Continental Divide in the Central-European Divine Action Debate' based at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2017-2019, he worked on the ERC project 'Authority and Innovation in Early Franciscan Thought (c.1220-45)' at King's College London and the Templeton project 'Human and Divine Providence' at Universidad Austral. Kopf holds degrees in Theology, Philosophy, and Science and Religion from Universität Innsbruck and the University of Edinburgh, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

• Introduction PART I. Framing Providence - Actionistic Providence 1: The Divine Action Debate 2: The Divine Action Project (1988-2003) 3: The Reason for the Deadlock PART II. Reframing Providence - Prudential-Ordinative Providence 4: Towards a Prudential-Ordinative Understanding of Providence 5: Divine Providence, Natural Contingency, and the Doctrine of Transcendence 6: The Teleological Nature of Providence and the Teleological Natures of Creatures PART III: An Application - Revisiting an Evolution Debate 7: Replaying the Tape of Life 8: Evaluating the Theological Responses Conclusion

The doctrine of providence reflects how God guides his creation and has been widely conceived in action terms in recent theological scholarship. Divine action is then modelled on human action...To sum it up: this by Kopf is worthwhile reading, especially when dealing with the question of evolution on one hand and God's providence on the other in the dialogue between science and theology (religion).