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Michael Wigglesworth and the Scope of Puritan Psychomachia

Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2016
The present article attempts to portray a rather bleak personality of Puritan New England, Minister Michael Wigglesworth, who had in his time great influence on his community ipso facto. Mr. Doomsday, as he was called, kept a diary that reveals the abyss
Poenaru Andreea
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Providence and Pantheism

Sophia, 2021
This paper argues that a strong thesis of divine providence, whereby God is understood as in complete control of all things, entails pantheism, the thesis that the universe is not ontologically distinct from God. In normal discourse, we distinguish a plan from, on the one hand, the state of affairs which realizes that plan—its execution or expression ...
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Does Providence Entail Divine Temporality? Maybe

Religions
Within contemporary Christian philosophical theology, there are three broad theories of providence being debated. These are theological determinism, Molinism, and open theism.
R. T. Mullins
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The Emotional Impact of Evil: Philosophical Reflections on Existential Problems

Open Theology, 2019
In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky illustrates that encounters with evil do not solely impact agents’ beliefs about God (or God’s existence). Evil impacts people on an emotional level as well.
Colgrove Nicholas
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Nature, Fate, and Causality in the Peripatetic Tradition: The Case of Alexander of Aphrodisias

Religions
The aim of this work is to present the Peripatetic doctrine of fate (heimarmene) according to Alexander of Aphrodisias in his treatise Peri heimarmenes or De fato. The central thesis of this Alexandrian work is that everything that occurs kata ten physin
Alberto Ross
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L'entreprise providence.

Connexions, 2009
Si l’un des enjeux de la responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise est d’imposer un modèle « d’entreprise providence » à côté des États-nations, on comprend que l’enjeu identitaire des chartes éthiques soit d’importance. La solidarité mise en œuvre par l’entreprise ne peut en effet établir sa légitimité ni sur la démonstration de son efficacité, ni sur ...
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Unveiling Adam Smith’s Invisible Hands: Transcending Giorgio Agamben’s Economic Theology

Religions
This article provides a critical evaluation of Giorgio Agamben’s argument that Adam Smith’s metaphor of the invisible hand is representative of economic theology and providential control.
Mark Rathbone
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Stoicism and Christian Ethics

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2022
It is widely accepted that the Stoics had a decisive influence on historical Christian thought, particularly Christian ethics. But the nature of this influence is contested among contemporary scholars.
Elizabeth Agnew Cochran
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Doubting Thomas: A Defense of Thomas Aquinas’ Account of Divine Providence in Response to David Fergusson

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University
This essay constitutes a response to two criticisms of Thomas Aquinas’ account of divine providence which David Fergusson puts forward in his book The Providence of God: A Polyphonic Account.
Hodson Nathaniel
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“Physician,” not “Provider”

The Annals of Family Medicine, 2022
Kristina M, Diaz, Kevin E, Johnson
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