Plastic nature enables Cudworth to account for the providential ordering of the universe without falling into the trap of occasionalism. |
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It was providential that he purchased this exceptional pen and he took the trouble to research its history. |
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He is very sensitive to the modulations of belief and theology underlying these manifestations of providential meaning. |
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We believe in the authority, sufficiency, inspiration, perspicuity, inerrancy and providential preservation of the Scriptures. |
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The nation itself came to be seen in a providential or even millennial light. |
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Joachim of Fiore saw the millennial pattern of apocalypse as the very pattern of providential history itself. |
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A high-voltage wire snapped and fell on the busy road on Monday afternoon, and pedestrians and motorists had a providential escape. |
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Buena Vista Social Club's nomination last year was welcomed as a sign of providential change in the academy. |
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We can trust that everything that happens in our lives is under the providential care of God. |
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That's what I think Americans can do with this providential period of prosperity and peace. |
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Therefore, migrants are also a providential resource to be discovered and given value in building a new humanity and proclaiming the Gospel. |
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Yet, another path was open to man, consisting in accommodating himself to an unfriendly nature as a necessary or providential thing. |
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He attended financially to all his children and saw to it that they had providential opportunities. |
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I have to tell you folks, this is absolutely by chance and it's providential that you're here today. |
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In such a context, the inclusion of many Germans in the garrison of regular troops at the time may be considered to have been providential. |
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That was to prove providential to a generation of orphans in post-war Japan. |
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International communities are a providential vehicle to realize this passing on of the heritage. |
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How could I fail to see this providential coincidence as an element that must mark the ministry to which I am called? |
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Institutions and parishes are important and providential, but young people increasingly stay outside them. |
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In such a situation, the possibility of going away on an international residency presents itself as a very real relief, a providential oasis or retreat to an artist. |
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It is deep time that opens a new view of nature, which if it lacks the Divine fiat, the miraculous and providential, is no less sublime in its own way. |
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He believed too in the superiority of Greek culture and in the meritoriousness and providential character of the Roman Empire. |
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The statue is a memorial of dramatic and providential events, written in history and in the consciousness of the City. |
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It is a providential occasion for us to live with renewed enthusiasm that which we are by our birth, a fraternity-contemplative-in-mission. |
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As in the Democracy, the coming of equality and the death of his own class exist as providential forces, of which monarchs are both the witting and unwitting agents. |
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Thus the great set piece of the novel is neither a massacre, nor a military slaughter, nor a trial and execution, but a providential visitation of the plague. |
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Call it providential, but it is exactly the kind of role with which Anne Heche identifies. |
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To return to his present day, his flux capacitor needed a providential shaft of lightning. |
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Then they can really seize a providential opportunity to draw a distinction between the White House and themselves. |
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They aren't content with the ordinary, everyday life they have, they are listening to their intuition, which leads them to many providential meetings. |
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After not being able to take part in 2009 due to a lack of funds, the Portuguese rider received the providential phone call less than two months prior to the start of the rally. |
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Consecrated persons have a providential mission in schools, in the modern context, where the educational proposals seem to be increasingly poorer and man's aspirations seem to be increasingly unanswered! |
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It is not necessary to stress here that such treatment is the same for all types of pension fund hitherto analysed, with a few exceptions for people registered with the old providential funds. |
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But if this really is a 100-year mission, then it's a kairos, a providential chance for the church to learn what it means to be church, and for us to learn what Christ left us to do here. |
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Many readers understood all manner of news in providential terms. |
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Religious believers can retort by stressing his reverence for Jesus as a moral teacher and reformer, and his clear belief in a supreme or providential power. |
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The 2008 vintage might have been spilled and lost but for a providential delay in the arrival of bottles from France, according to Patricio Eguiguren, Lapostolle's managing director. |
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Those weeks and months in Montepaolo were surely providential, because Anthony came down from that mountain his face radiant, his whole being aflame with the Good News he was sent to bring to the poor. |
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After a long itinerary under the providential hand of God, today we sing hymns of thanksgiving because He has carried through to a happy end all the efforts to realize this new house of prayer in African land. |
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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. |
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For Plato, the purposiveness that gives direction to the actualization of these potentialities is found in the providential order within a divine intellect. |
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The same belief underlay the providential view of history, in which the rise and fall of nations appeared as the expression of God's unsearchable purposes. |
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It seemed providential that he should arrive at just that moment. |
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