In Christianity, providentialism is the belief that all events on Earth are controlled by God.
Belief
Providentialism was sometimes viewed by its adherents as differing between national providence and personal providence. In the words of historians, it was an interpretive framework of occurring natural, political and social events at a time when the religious and the secular were not clearly divided.
Providentialism may be understood as the acceptance of the belief that all that happens in the world is for the greater good, since, "God created the social order and appointed each individual in his place within it."
See also
- Occasionalism
- Problem of evil
- Theodicy