This article puts forward the view that divine action is constitutive of Christian theology. More precisely, it claims that what makes a theologian’s work theological is her commitment to a narrative composed by God’s actions to create, redeem, sustain and perfect creatures. It begins with a systematic summary of William Abraham’s four-volume Divine Agency and Divine Action. Two objections are then put to it, one regarding the breadth of the concept ‘action’ and another regarding its ability to facilitate a complete theological method. It then argues that these objections can be overcome when partnered with John Webster’s ‘theological theology’ approach, as it supplies the crucial concept of an ‘economy’ of divine action. A final section presents a ‘Websterian/Abrahamic’ approach, with the result that divine action is no longer relegated to discussions of special divine providence but is the defining feature of all theological work.

本文提出神的作为是基督教神学的组成部分的观点。更准确地说，它声称使神学家的工作具有神学意义的是她对由上帝创造、救赎、维持和完善受造物的行为所组成的叙事的承诺。它以对威廉·亚伯拉罕四卷本《神圣的代理》和《神圣的行动》的系统总结开始. 然后有两个反对意见，一个是关于“行动”概念的广度，另一个是关于它促进完整神学方法的能力。然后论证，当与约翰韦伯斯特的“神学神学”方法合作时，这些反对意见可以被克服，因为它提供了神圣行动“经济”的关键概念。最后一部分提出了一种“韦伯斯特/亚伯拉罕”的方法，其结果是，神的作为不再被归为对特殊神旨的讨论，而是所有神学工作的定义特征。