providentialism
- noun
- /ˌprɒvɪˈdɛnʃəlɪzəm/
- Specialized
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providencialismo
- Many people find comfort in providentialism, believing that their life events are guided by a higher power.
Examples
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I admit there are arguments to be made against some GOPers' "providentialism," that God will take care of global warming, for instance.
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For the reviewer, Mowry's failure to properly examine historical causes was directly related to his reliance on providentialism as an explanatory method.
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Yet Eells did not see his providentialism as being at odds with scholarly science.
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Like Schaff, Eells believed that providentialism was essential to scholarly objectivity.
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However, providentialism isn't unconstitutional, and wasn't even unfashionable until recently.
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The Whitman controversy may thus appear to be yet another tale of a twentieth-century secularization project, but the relationship between providentialism and secularism was far more complicated than it may at first seem.
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Just as these attitudes were being disseminated by and replicated in the press, so too was the ideology of Providentialism, "the doctrine that human affairs are regulated by a divine agency for human good" (Gray 1995: 91).
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Protestant providentialism, the state of nature and state of exception concepts, their associated theories of sovereignty, and the contractual logic of indentured servitude toward restorative or counterinnovative ends.
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In her speech, she emphasized providentialism, arguing that fate plays a crucial role in the course of history.
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The author's writings reflect his strong belief in providentialism, suggesting that everything happens for a divine reason.
Synonyms
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A plan or wish of God that guides what happens
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The belief that God already decides what happens in people's lives
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Special help from a god for someone deciding or acting
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Belief that all things that happen are decided in advance by fate or a higher power
A belief that God decides everything, especially who will be saved
Belief that God or a spirit actively changes events in human life
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
providentialism = providential (transparent) = providence + ial + ism
The word is formed regularly from 'providential' plus the noun-forming suffix '-ism', yielding the sense of a doctrine or belief in providence.
Etymology
Providentialism comes from the parts pro- 'before' and videre 'to see', and is related to the simple word provide, so it carries the idea of 'seeing ahead'. A helpful image is of God or a higher power that 'sees ahead' and guides events, so providentialism is the belief that life events are guided by that care.