providentialismn.
/ˌprɒvᵻˈdɛnʃl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌprɑvəˈdɛn(t)ʃəˌlɪzəm/ The belief that events are predestined by God or fate.
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the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > predestination
foresettinga1300
destiningc1300
ordainingc1350
ordinationc1450
pre-ordinance1486
destinacy1490
predestination?1503
pre-ordination1527
foreordinance1530
predefinition?1548
fore-appointing1589
destination1598
ordainment1605
foreordination1620
predeterminationa1628
fatalitya1631
destinating1633
predesignationa1641
foreordaining1667
preordainmenta1847
pre-appointment1850
pre-election1860
foreordainment1879
providentialism1927
1927 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation 18 The release of God from the anthropomorphic disguise of personality also provides release from that vice which may be termed Providentialism.
1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. I. v. 264 The ultimate adoption of the Five Year Plan and its successor has been the completest change over from the providentialism of Marx to the once hated and despised method of the Utopists.
1954 C. S. Lewis Eng. Lit. in 16th Cent. i. ii. 148 His [sc. Fabyan's] philosophy of history is a simple Providentialism which leaves him completely agnostic about second causes.
1997 Daily Tel. 2 June 18/5 Key British officials..were in the grip of a harsh providentialism which saw the hand of God at work in the famine.
2005 Church Times 4 Nov. 11/5 Where does providentialism leave the people of south-east Asia in the wake of the Boxing Day tsunami?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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