providentially

Examples of providential

providential
Each problem concerns an apparently apodeictic principle that the providential employment of divine foreknowledge is supposed to violate.
Perhaps, on the contrary, people had always exhibited an ability to engage with providential stories and miraculous tales on several different conceptual levels.
Their objectives ranged widely too, from the mundane to the providential.
Each providential cycle had produced more converts for the true faith and a greater security for the true religion.
Monteore punctuates her journal with references to her religious faith and her conviction that despite their difculties, there is a providential plan.
In both cases, he clung stubbornly to stories of providential retribution despite vigorous objections to their accuracy.
These marital and national concerns were played out against a strongly providential backdrop.
They see in it a force for good that works like a providential mechanism for the benefit of human kind.
The khubz-iste individual is quietist; the khubz-iste state is providential.
At the risk of over-simplifying, we may observe that providential control may be active or passive.
The timing of physical death was uncertain and its cause providential.
In place of this providential system, the eighteenth century provided a new world of sociability, politeness, reading, and commercial credit.
Prosperity offered hints of providential favor - how you fared here was a pretty good indicator of how you would fare in the hereafter.
American antislavery advocates were also impressed by the rapidity of this process, which they took as evidence of the providential progress of mankind in their time.
Technical history became central to this steadfastness, ensuring that it was every bit as 'committed' as whig history itself, not least to the notion of a providential past.
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