Did God Care?: Providence, Dualism, and Will in Later Greek and Early Christian Philosophy

Part1
Providence,
The pronoia Problem(s),
Introduction: Did the Gods care?,
The first 'likely stories' about Providence: From the Presocratics to Plato,
Epicurus, Aristotle, and (Pseudo-) Aristotle: What difference is there?,
"Call him Providence. You will still be right". The stoa on faith and Determinism,
Three Providences! Pseudo- Plutarch and the Doctrine of 'conditional fate',
Conclusion: Aesop and Xanthus in the weeds,
Which God cares for you and me?,
Introduction: The personal God of early Christianity?
Philosophers' personal Gods: Daimonic intervention in the stoa and Plutarch,
Fortunes Favorites: Providence in early Roman Historians,
A different God, present and absent in Hellenistic Jewish Literature,
"So you do not neglect the nation of the Jews after all!": Philo of Alexandria,
Flavius Josephus: Providential History is Jewish history,
Prayer of care?- Justin Martyr and Trypho the Jew 'Investigate the Diety',
Conclusion: A God personsl enough for a stoic,
Dualism,
The other Gods,
Introduction: Dualism in doubt,
Matter, Evil, and Dualism from the Pythagoreans to a Neo-Pythagorean,
'Mitigated Dualism' and Jewish Apocalyptic literature,
Athenagoras on "the Archon over Matter and Material things",
Living idols and questions that deserve punishment according to Clement of Alexandria,
"Nothing happens without God": Origen on evil, Demons, and other absences,
Marcion asks,"Doth God Clothe the grass?" Conclusions: 'Religious Dualism' in Roman Philosophy,
Did God care for creation?
Introduction: Gnostics without 'Gnosticism?,
No idle hands: The creation- theology of Irenaeus of Lyons,
Archons and Providences at work in creation: 'On the origin of the world ' and the 'Apocryphon of John',
"These senseless Men claim that they ascend above the Ceator,
"The will of the Father" and the Tripartite Tractate"
Conclusions: The Gnostics on providence, creation, and 'Gnosticism',
Part3
will,
Did God know all along?,
Introduction: Origen 'on fate'(Philocalia(23),
Origens Digressions on divine Omniscience and future causes in 'On fate',
Chrysippus and Cicero on "Things that are simple, others complex": the Oracle to Laius,
Upholding the appearance of Civic Piety: Alexander of Aphrodisias and Alcinous respond to the 'oracle to Latius',
Origen`s oracles to Laius-and David, against Marcion,
Conclusions: The Book of Heaven',
What we choose now,
IntroductionWhere does free will emerge in ancient Philosophy?,
Aristotle on action and pseudo--Plutarch on determinism,
Allthese things depend on one`s thinking autonomy and fatalism in the book of the Laws of the countries',
How God cares,
Conclusions,
Bibliography,
Index