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Providential meaning
Pertaining to divine providence. | Fortunate, as if occurring through the intervention of Providence.
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These Fourteen Theses represent an attempt to sketch a providential history of global Anglicanism over the past twenty-five years.
For myself, I believe that he was providential, a man for his time.
So too are his providential chastisements, so painfully abundant over the last few decades (Hebrews 12:6).
The decision to conceal the boys’ eyes behind dark sunglasses suddenly looked providential.
I was fortunate to be supported by my family, guided by some wonderful stewards and I have tried to make the best of the very providential opportunities that were put in front of me.
No, not that birth, the Savior, but an adoption with providential seasonal timing.
This has benefits apart from those inherent to the Providential Ring, too.
My wife, my children, my friends, all those providential events in my life that in retrospect were unmerited blessings from a generous God.
He reminds me that in his opening chapter he contends “that a good deal of history after Gibbon is flawed because it is based on the conviction that history, properly understood, can make no allowance for the providential.
I do not know about your life, but when I look back into mine, I see moments—some more providential than others—when I was going through an experience but did not realize how powerful it was at the time or how it would impact my future.
Among the Pythagorean Sacred Discourses there is a dictum attributed to Arignote: The eternal essence of number is the most providential cause of the whole heaven, earth and the region in between.
In gratitude for the providential escape of King Charles II from shipwreck, Gostling, who had been of the royal party, put together some verses from the Psalms in the form of an anthem and requested Purcell to set them to music.
In those works, Spinoza denies the immortality of the soul; strongly rejects the notion of a providential God—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and claims that the Law was neither literally given by God nor any longer binding on Jews.
It was a clarion call for unity against the corrupt British court, so as to realize America's providential role in providing an asylum for liberty.
Pollock, pp. 88–89 The foundation of the League at this time was providential as far as Nansen was concerned, giving him a new outlet for his restless energy.