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Providentialism

the religious understanding of history as the revelation of the will of god and the fulfillment of a predetermined divine plan for the “salvation” of man.

Providentialism is characteristic of all theistic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The providentialist understanding of the historical process as the path leading to the eschatological “kingdom of god” was developed by Augustine. This view became the basis for all medieval Christian church historiography. In the 17th century the ideas of providentialism were developed by J. B. Bossuet in France.

Beginning with the Renaissance and particularly during the Enlightenment, the rationalistic view of history as an immanent process and as the realization of “natural law” and reason developed in opposition to providentialism. However, in the 19th and 20th centuries, providentialism continued to remain the philosophical basis for many idealist trends and schools—for example, in the early 19th century, J. M. de Maistre and F. von Schlegel; L. von Ranke and his school of historiography; and the philosophy of history of neo-Thomism.

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Indeed, in Rabelais and His World Bakhtin manifests, to a rather amazing degree, a rather radical and general anti-Christian spirit along with the major accusations against the whole "poisoning" of the Judeo-Christian tradition, which Bakhtin does not hesitate to call ideology: "The very contents of medieval ideology--asceticism, somber providentialism, sin, atonement, suffering .

Nietzsche's influence on Bakhtin's Aesthetics of Grotesque Realism by Mazour-Matusevich, Yelena / CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

However, while Camargo's text appears to offer a subtle critique of colonial exploitation, it does not suggest identification with the victims of European providentialism.

American artifice: ideology and ekphrasis in the Poema Heroico a San ... by Mayers, Kathryn / Hispanofila

Among his topics are providentialism and rationalist empiricism in early modern England, modernism and the aestheticization of dissent, and market radicalism and the struggle of participation.

Democratic communications; formations, projects, possibilities by Reference & Research Book News

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