Posted on 01/11/2010 9:25:05 AM PST by Salvation
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God's all-wise plan for the universe, and the carrying out of his plan by his loving rule or governance. the eternal world plan and its fulfillment in time are together called divine providence. As expressed by the First Vatican Council (1869-1870), "God in His providence watches over and governs all the things that He made, reaching from end to end with might and disposing all things with gentleness" (Denzinger 3003). Divine providence is universal in that all events, even the most personal decisions of human beings, are part of God's eternal plan. It is infallibly certain because the ultimate purpose that God has for the universe will not fail. And it is immutable because God himself cannot change. (Etym. Latin providentia, foresight, foreknowledge.)
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Oxford English Dictionary (the OED) illustrates three different meanings for the word with quotations from the writings of Defoe a century earlier:
1. The foreknowing and beneficent care and government of God (or of nature); divine direction, control, or guidance.
“providence which is...the administration of heaven’s government in the world”
1727, Defoe, Histor. Appar.
2. Applied to the deity as exercising prescient and beneficent power and direction.
“What Providence has reserved for me he only knows.”
1704, Defoe, 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm.
3. An instance or act of divine intervention; an event or circumstance which indicates divine dispensation. Special Providence, a particular act of direct divine intervention.
“How can he sweeten the bitterest providences!”
1718, Defoe, Crusoe.
Crusoe refers to Providence throughout the novel; his shifting from one meaning to another as occasion warrants is reflected in his sometimes capitalizing the word and sometimes not.
Interestingly, Defoe was a Puritan.
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