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proviˈdentialism
[f. providential a. + -ism.]
The belief that events are predestined, whether by God or by fate.
1927J. 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. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiog. 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. 1954C. 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. |