Journal articles: 'Providentialism'

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Heintzman, Ralph. "“Le temporaire durera plus longtemps”: The Long Career of Providential Indépendantisme." Journal of Canadian Studies 58, no. 1 (2024): 13–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcs-2022-0029.

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Dividing Québécois into the categories of federalists or indépendandistes obscures the existence of an important third group called “providential” indépendantistes (or “providentialists,” for short) in this article. The article describes the origin of this group in the 1840s and its continued presence in Quebec political culture ever since. Its often unspoken assumptions can be summed up in two contrasting assertions: Independence sometime. But not now. Confederation changed little, as far as providential indépendantisme is concerned. “Providentialists” could still be found on both sides of the political divide. From 1905 to 1995, the career of providential indépendantisme followed a rising curve until the 1950s, a swift (but only partial) eclipse in the 1960s, followed by a gradual re-emergence in the 1980s, which found its full expression only after the referendum of 1995, eventually in the form of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ). François Legault is an archetypal “providentialist.” The article explores some reasons why providential indépendantistes who may not wish to turn the dream of independence into reality are nevertheless unwilling to abandon the dream and concludes it is in the interest of Canada and of Canadian federalism not that providentialism should disappear but, rather, that it should remain providential.

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Carlson, Christina Marie. "The Rhetoric of Providence: Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess (1624) and Seventeenth-Century Political Engraving*." Renaissance Quarterly 67, no. 4 (2014): 1224–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/679782.

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AbstractThis essay compares the rhetoric of providentialism in Samuel Ward’s 1621 engraving To God, In Memorye of his Double Deliveraunce from ye Invincible Navie and ye Unmatcheable Powder Treason with that in Thomas Middleton’s 1624 play A Game at Chess. Both satirize the negotiations over the Spanish Match by using providentialist discourse to modulate and veil their more satirical, and polemical, intentions. Ward and Middleton employ a technique of historical retrospection, referring to past events in order to present a simultaneously diachronic and synchronic world view.

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Bennett, Brian. "Hermetic Histories: Divine Providence and Conspiracy Theory." Numen 54, no. 2 (2007): 174–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852707x185005.

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AbstractIn the ancient world, the writing of history was closely connected with divination. In this essay I argue that two types of historiography, the providential and the conspiratorial, have a distinct divinatory dimension. Divination purports to uncover occult influences behind the gritty flux of human affairs. Providentialism looks for the "hand of God" in historical events both great and small. Conspiracism is concerned not with the "hand of God" but the "hidden hand." Providentialism and conspiracism are hermetic histories. Like divination they concern themselves with tracking and interpreting signs. History is deciphered via sacred/secret texts, such as the Bible or The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In this mode historiography is akin to cryptography. Providentialism and conspiracism are hermetic also in the sense that they present "airtight," all-encompassing explanations of past events. They are totalizing histories. The purpose of this essay is to highlight connections between the discourses of divination, divine providence, and conspiracy theory. By way of illustration, I discuss the Primary Chronicle of Kievan Rus' and two articles written in the post-Soviet period by the late Metropolitan Ioann. The approach taken in this essay foreshortens textual detail and historical depth in favor of a kind of Wittgensteinian perspicuous presentation. Hence the value of formal links: the vaulting phrases of providentialism resound in the Primary Chronicle, yet the text seems grounded in the Lebenswelt of divination; in the articles of Ioann, providentialism passes into conspiracism, demonstrating a link between the two hermetic discourses.

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Entezareghaem, Shahab. "Religious Reformation and the Crisis of Providentialism in Cyril Tourneur’s The Atheist’s Tragedy (1611): A Cultural Materialist Reading." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 11, no. 2 (2020): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.11n.2p.65.

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The early modern period in England is characterised by philosophical and moral debates over the meaning and pertinence of Christian beliefs and teachings. One of the most controversial topics in this epoch is God’s providence and its supposed impacts on man’s daily life. In the wake of the Reformation and emerging philosophical schools, particularly in the second half of the sixteenth century, Providentialism was seriously put into question and the meaning and influences of God’s providence were, therefore, investigated. Epicureans and Calvinists were two prominent groups of religious reformists who cast doubt upon the validity and pertinence of Christian Providentialism as it was taught during the medieval period. These intellectual and philosophical debates were reflected in the literary productions of the age in general, and in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in particular. Cyril Tourneur is one of the early modern English playwrights who inquired into the meaning and relevance of Providentialism in his last play, The Atheist’s Tragedy (1611). Adhering to a cultural materialist mode of criticism, I will show in this paper that Tourneur is a dissident dramatist who separates the realm of God’s divinity from man’s rational capacity in his tragedy and anticipates, hence, the emergence and development of new religious and philosophical visions in the Renaissance.

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Suslov, Alexey Viktorovich, Dmitrii Alekseevich Gusev, and Vasilii Aleksandrovich Potaturov. "Theism, atheism and pantheism in the context of solution of the central philosophical question: anthropological aspect." Философская мысль, no. 8 (August 2021): 92–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8728.2021.8.35837.

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The object of this research is a centuries-old worldview polemic between the philosophical representations on the world and human associated with theism, atheism and pantheism. The subject of this research is the theoretical and practical attitudes and conclusions of anthropological nature that result from these intellectual models. The authors dwell on the worldview correlations of materialism and idealism with their worldview companions, such as atheism, evolutionism, scientism, anthropological voluntarism &nbsp;on the one hand, and theism, creationism, antiscientism, providentialism &ndash; on the other. Special attention is given to examination of ideological link of atheism and pantheism with the anthropocentric attitude, as well as the questions of life navigation of a human in the context of confrontation and polemics of anthropological voluntarism &nbsp;and providentialism. The novelty of this research consists in substantiation of authenticity of the philosophical idealism as a model that implies theistic and creationist view of the universe and fundamental incompatibility of the central idealistic thesis on the primacy of spiritual reality with the nature of being from the perspective of pantheism. The novelty also lies in the authors&rsquo; statement on the worldview similarity of atheism and pantheism, each of which is a specific substantiation of anthropological voluntarism &nbsp;that is opposed to theistic providentialism. The conclusion consists in acknowledgment of the fundamental dichotomy of the worldview choice and life orientation of a human between the anthropocentric and providential poles, despite all ideological multifacetedness and diversity of the philosophical and religious representations.

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Terry, Richard. ""Meaner Themes": Mock-Heroic and Providentialism in Cowper's Poetry." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 34, no. 3 (1994): 617. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/450885.

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Mccalla, Arthur. "LisztBricoleur: Poetics and Providentialism in Early July Monarchy France." History of European Ideas 24, no. 2 (1998): 71–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0191-6599(98)00012-6.

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Donnelly, Bridget C. ""Chequer Works of Providence": Skeptical Providentialism in Daniel Defoe's Fiction." Philosophy and Literature 43, no. 1 (2019): 107–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.2019.0006.

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Matzukis, C. "Providentialism in Niketas Choniates, Nikephoros Gregoras and other medieval writers." Acta Patristica et Byzantina 3, no. 1 (1992): 119–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10226486.1992.11745826.

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Meneghello Matte, Raimundo. "El Dios de las batallas: el providencialismo en la cronística hispana en la batalla de las Navas de Tolosa (1212)." Revista de Historia y Geografía, no. 32 (May 24, 2018): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.29344/07194145.32.1258.

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En el siglo XIII, las crónicas muestran una consolidación de los tópicos providencialistas, especialmente respecto de uno de los acontecimientoscentrales de la Reconquista: la batalla de Las Navas de Tolosa de 1212. Para los cronistas, este evento reúne todos los elementos del providencialismo: una batalla entre la alianza de los cristianos contra el Islam y que mostró las pericias de un rey pecador, Alfonso VIII, que logró la redención. Por lo demás, los relatos son abundantes en milagros y otros sucesos que sirvieron para convertir a la batalla en un ícono del providencialismo. No obstante, debemos destacar que estos episodios providenciales evidencian cambios en relación a la forma en que habían sido presentados anteriormente, dado que se trataría de portentos menos espectaculares. Se relatan pequeños milagros que en su conjunto componen una gran historia providencial; a su vez, la mano de Dios es menos directa, resaltando en su lugar las acciones de los hombres, siempre bajo la premisa de que sus actos eran impulsados por la Providencia.Palabras clave: Reconquista, Providencialismo, Navas de Tolosa, Alfonso VIIIThe god of battles: providentialism in the hispanic chronicle inthe battle of las Navas de Tolosa (1212)AbstractIn the Thirteenth century, chronicles show a consolidation of the providentialtopics, especially on one of the central events of the Reconquista – the battleof Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212. For historians, this event brings together allthe elements of Providentialism: A battle between the alliance of Christiansagainst Islam showing the skills of a sinner King Alfonso VIII, who achieved redemption. Furthermore, stories abound in miracles and other events that served to turn the battle into a Providentialism icon. However, we must emphasize that these providential events show changes in relation to how they had been presented before as they would be less spectacular wonders. Small miracles which jointly make up a large providential history are recounted; the hand of God is less direct, highlighting instead the actions of men, under the premise that their actions were driven by Providence.Keywords: Reconquista, Reconquest, Providentialism, Navas de Tolosa, Alfonso VIIIO deus das batalhas: o providencialismo na crônica hispana na batalha das Navas de Tolosa (1212)ResumoNo século XIII, as crónicas mostram uma consolidação dos temas providencialistas,especialmente referente de um dos acontecimentos centrais daReconquista: a Batalha das Navas de Tolosa em 1212. Para os cronistas,este evento reúne todos os elementos do providencialismo: uma batalhaentre a aliança dos cristãos contra o Islão, mostrando as habilidades deum rei pecador, Alfonso VIII, que logrou a redenção. Além disso, os relatosabundam em milagres e outros sucessos que serviram para transformar abatalha num ícone do providencialismo. Porém, deve-se destacar que estesepisódios providenciais mostram mudanças em relação à forma que tinhamsido apresentados anteriormente, devido a tratar-se-ia de maravilhas menosespetaculares. Relatam-se pequenos milagres que no seu conjunto, compõemuma grande história providencial; por sua vez, a mão de Deus é menos direta,ressaltando no seu lugar as ações dos homens, sob a premissa de que suasações foram impulsionadas pela Providência.Palavras-chave: Reconquista, Providencialismo, Navas de Tolosa, Alfonso VIII

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Kochin, Michael S. "HOW JOSEPH OE MAISTRE READ PLATO'S LAWS." Polis 19, no. 1-2 (2002): 29–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/20512996-019-01-90000005.

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Maistre's Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg is modeled on Plato's Laws. Plato and Maistre both demand the political control of natural inquiry, and implement these controls through theodictic conversation. Maistre, following the lead of Plato's legislator, publishes an exemplary conversation about providence between a young man tempted by an atheistic Enlightenment and two older, wiser, and more learned men of affairs. Maistre defends providentialism from materialist interpretations of natural science even as Plato defended it from ancient materialism.

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Kochin, Michael S. "How Joseph De Maistre Read Plato’s Laws." Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 19, no. 1-2 (2002): 29–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/20512996-90000038.

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Maistre’s Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg is modeled on Plato’s Laws. Plato and Maistre both demand the political control of natural inquiry, and implement these controls through theodictic conversation. Maistre, following the lead of Plato’s legislator, publishes an exemplary conversation about providence between a young man tempted by an atheistic Enlightenment and two older, wiser, and more learned men of affairs. Maistre defends providentialism from materialist interpretations of natural science even as Plato defended it from ancient materialism.

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Pettit, Norman, and Michael P. Winship. "Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment." New England Quarterly 70, no. 2 (1997): 321. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/366708.

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Walsham, Alexandra. "“THE FATALL VESPER”: PROVIDENTIALISM AND ANTI-POPERY IN LATE JACOBEAN LONDON." Past and Present 144, no. 1 (1994): 36–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/past/144.1.36.

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Lippy, Charles H. "Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment." History: Reviews of New Books 24, no. 4 (1996): 148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.1996.9952464.

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Grimley, Matthew. "The Religion of Englishness: Puritanism, Providentialism, and “National Character,” 1918–1945." Journal of British Studies 46, no. 4 (2007): 884–906. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/520264.

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Westerkamp, Marilyn J., and Michael P. Winship. "Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment." Journal of American History 84, no. 3 (1997): 1044. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2953121.

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Godbeer, Richard, and Michael P. Winship. "Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment." William and Mary Quarterly 54, no. 2 (1997): 418. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2953283.

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Kriegseisen, Wojciech. "Protestant Providentialism in the Commonwealth of the Nobles: A critical view on Sarmatism." Kwartalnik Historyczny 128, no. 5 (2022): 5–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/kh.2021.128.si.1.01.

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This study is devoted to providentialism, an element characteristic of Sarmatism – a dominant ideology and culture in the early modern Commonwealth of the nobles. The attachment of special weight to providence’s care of the state and the nobility seems to have been characteristic also of Protestant circles in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and therefore the culture of the nobles’ Sarmatism should not be reduced to its late form, dominated as it was by Catholicism in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Ponomareva, Anastasiia. "Absurdism and its relation to faith in Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot"." Культура и искусство, no. 3 (March 2024): 17–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0625.2024.3.39307.

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The aim of the work is to pose the problem of the relation of absurdism to faith, considered by the example of the text of S. Beckett's literary work "Waiting for Godot". Research objectives: to give a philosophical analysis of artistic images, to reveal the specifics of the attitude to God among existentialist authors. The object of the study is the text of the play "Waiting for Godot", the subject is the connection of absurdism with the theological and providentialist attitude. The philosophy of the absurd is considered as bringing existentialist thinking to its ultimate foundations. The absurd, as the antipode of the theory of providentialism, represents a pole in the thinking of a religious person who is desperate to find cause-and-effect relationships in the world. According to the author, absurdism as a philosophical trend is rooted precisely in the religious worldview. The author tries to revise the term "absurdism" and find an answer to the question of what place the search for God occupies in absurdism. Examining the work of S. Beckett "Waiting for Godot", the author seeks to prove that one of the sources of absurdism is the awareness of abandonment by God (in the variation "God died" or "God turned away"), which is necessarily associated with attributing to God the function of giving meaning to things, processes, phenomena. The author's main contribution to the research of the topic is to identify the theological attitude as the basis for philosophical trends that position themselves as atheistic.

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Suslov, Alexey Viktorovich. "Russian cosmism and transhumanism in the polemic between anthropological voluntarism and providentialism." Философская мысль, no. 8 (August 2021): 65–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8728.2021.8.35781.

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Comprehension of the finitude of individual existence entails the need to find the answer to question of overcoming death, a salvation path that would allow pass through the abyss of nonexistence. Solution to this question implies various forms of immortality: naturalistic, theological, technocratic, creative, sensually-transcendental, etc. Prolongation of life and gaining immortality has become a central problem of such philosophical movements as Russian cosmism and modern transhumanism, which view the victory over death as the project and purpose of mankind. The object of this research is the ethical content and key ideas of the philosophy of Russian cosmism and modern transhumanism. The subject is the origins and evolution of transhumanist worldview in its genetic link with the ideas of cosmic philosophy. This article aims to analyze the methods and means of how a human can improve and obtain immortality, which are advanced by transhumanists, and juxtapose them with the ideas of Russian cosmist philosophers. The conclusion is made that the central idea of cosmism and transhumanism, which lies in overcoming the finitude of human existence, does not find its global humanistic realization: both concepts offer partial and unnatural solutions (autotrophy, resurrection, cyborgization). Emphasis is placed on solution of the problem of immortality in the Christian anthropology in spiritual-moral ethical-philosophical context

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Bennett, Brian P. "Sign Languages: Divination and Providentialism in the "Primary Chronicle" of Kievan Rus'." Slavonic and East European Review 83, no. 3 (2005): 373–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/see.2005.0135.

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Suslov, Alexey Viktorovich, and Dmitrii Alekseevich Gusev. "A Bridge across the Abyss? Digitalization and Transhumanism as a New Anthropological and Social Reality in the Context of Ideological Searches of Personality (Historical, Philosophical and General Theoretical Aspects)." Философская мысль, no. 7 (July 2023): 24–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8728.2023.7.39835.

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One of the main existentials of a person is the fact of his mortality and, most importantly, his knowledge about it, which inevitably leads everyone, one way or another, to the idea of overcoming death, to the idea of immortality, or – a saving bridge across the abyss of non–existence, which connects the present being of a person with his future being. In search of this bridge, a person talks about various "variants" of immortality: physical (naturalistic); biological; social; scientific-technical, technological and technocratic; religious – Christian providential immortality. The totality of socio-philosophical and anthropological concepts grouped around the idea of scientific and technological improvement of human nature, significant prolongation of life and, to the limit, overcoming mortality, is one of the modern trends of philosophical thought, known as transhumanism. The article attempts to consider transhumanism in the broad ideological context of the materialistic-atheistic, scientististic, positivist and evolutionist project, which, in general, is based on the "multifaceted" anthropovolutarianism that is constantly present in the philosophical search for humanity; and also – to analyze transhumanistic ideas from the positions of the opposite – idealistic-theistic, creationist, anti–positivist worldview camp, - based on providentialism, which for centuries and – currently – opposes anthropocentric voluntarism and transhumanism. The research being undertaken aims – in the context of the centuries–old polemic between anthropovolutarianism and providentialism - to clarify the reality or illusory nature of the proposed strategies of immortality, the search for a real bridge leading man and humanity through the abyss of threatened non-existence.

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Urbaniak, Jakub, and Mooketsi Motsisi. "The impact of the “fear of God” on the British abolitionist movement." Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte 26, no. 2 (2019): 26–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/znth-2019-0014.

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Abstract While there is a general consensus around the role of religion in the abolition of the Slave Trade, historians continue to give little to no detail on exactly how Christian theology influenced the abolitionist movement. This article seeks to interrogate one major theological factor inherent in the spirituality that underpinned the activism of the British abolitionists, namely their notion of Divine Providence, and particularly its moral-emotive correlate: the fear of God’s wrath. These theological notions are discussed based mainly on the analysis of the primary sources and within the theoretical framework of judicial providentialism, aptly captured by John Coffey among others.

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STROOP, CHRISTOPHER. "Nationalist War Commentary as Russian Religious Thought: The Religious Intelligentsia's Politics of Providentialism." Russian Review 72, no. 1 (2013): 94–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/russ.10682.

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Dolinin, Alexander. "Historicism or Providentialism? Pushkin's History of Pugachev in the Context of French Romantic Historiography." Slavic Review 58, no. 2 (1999): 291–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2673072.

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The evolution of Aleksandr Pushkin's ideology and poetics in the 1830s has long been the most controversial issue of Pushkin studies, the greatest stumbling block to biographers and literary critics. Grigorii Gukovskii's simple scheme, which construes Pushkin's "path" as a steady progression from romanticism toward realism and historicism, though not yet totally refuted, is gradually falling out of favor, for it ignores, contradicts, or misinterprets obvious "archaic," retrograde trends in Pushkin's late writings. Repudiating and subverting contemporaneous romantic codes, Pushkin, as a number of recent studies have shown, does not replace them with innovative prerealist or realist ones but tries to rejuvenate certain outdated eighteenth-century systems.

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MANNING, DAVID. "Anti-Providentialism as Blasphemy in Late Stuart England: A Case Study of “the Stage Debate”*." Journal of Religious History 32, no. 4 (2008): 422–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9809.2008.00723.x.

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Son, Kyong-Min. "The Making of the Neoliberal Subject: Response to Whyte." Political Theory 47, no. 2 (2018): 185–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591718774572.

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In her recent essay, Jessica Whyte has challenged the tendency to repurpose Friedrich Hayek’s thought for a progressive and participatory politics. Objecting to such thinkers as Michel Foucault and William Connolly who find inspiration in Hayek’s critique of the monolithic political sovereign and his defense of spontaneous order, Whyte contends that his neoliberalism is actually predicated on the cultivation of politically submissive subjectivity and the curtailment of democratic politics. While agreeing with her substantive conclusions, I suggest that her conceptual frame centered on the themes of invisibility and providentialism is limited in explaining Hayek’s ideas and, more generally, the operation of neoliberalism. Pace Whyte, I argue that Hayek’s neoliberalism does not simply stave off political challenges by obfuscation, but wages an active and highly visible campaign to recruit and interpellate individuals as market subjects.

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Trull, Mary. "Ecology and Apocalypse in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 55, no. 2 (2025): 353–78. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-11716367.

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Lucy Hutchinson's epic Genesis poem, Order and Disorder: Or, The World Made and Undone (1679), views humanity's place in the natural world through both John Calvin's providential theology and Lucretius's materialism in his ancient Roman epic, De rerum natura. Hutchinson reads the biblical origins of the world as a precursor to its imminent destruction, depicting the coming Apocalypse as an ecological catastrophe foreshadowed by familiar crises such as floods, fires, and earthquakes. Hutchinson's Order and Disorder brings readers’ attention to three juxtapositions crucial to early modern thinking on nature: Genesis and Apocalypse; God's special providence toward humans and general providence toward all of creation; and the human microcosm and universal macrocosm. Hutchinson's intersection of Calvinist providentialism and Lucretian physics offers a unique conception of Creation, linking atomistic disorder to catastrophic natural disasters.

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Polito, Roberto. "On the life of Asclepiades of Bithynia." Journal of Hellenic Studies 119 (November 1999): 48–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/632311.

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Any list of the most eminent Greek physicians must inevitably include the late Hellenistic doctor Asclepiades of Bithynia. He was both extremely successful during his lifetime, and highly influential after his death. His revolutionary pathology and therapeutic method were the objects of much discussion. His importance, however, goes beyond the history of medicine as such. In spite of the fact that most current handbooks of ancient philosophy ignore him altogether, philosophy does appear to have been a major interest of his. He was an uncompromising opponent of providentialism and teleology. He challenged the idea, at the time the dominant one, that matter is continuous. He accounted for the functioning of the body in purely mechanistic and quantitative terms, and also developed an account of the soul, unique in its time, which arguably provides the closest ancient antecedent to modern reductionism.

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Zorrilla, Víctor. "Providentialism as an Instrument for Moral Instruction in Bartolomé de las Casas and José de Acosta." Philosophy and Theology 25, no. 1 (2013): 33–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/philtheol20132512.

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Patrick, Patricia. "“All that appears most casuall to us”: Fortune, Compassion, and Reason in Lucy Hutchinson’s Exploratory Providentialism." Studies in Philology 112, no. 2 (2015): 327–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sip.2015.0012.

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Wang, Christy. "Providence and Puritan Deceit: John Davenport's Forgery Revisited." Studies in Church History 60 (May 23, 2024): 264–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/stc.2024.11.

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Many scholars have told the story of how John Davenport (bap. 1597, d. 1670), a prominent Congregationalist minister in New England, was fatally discredited as a fraudster when a letter he had forged was exposed in 1669. However, no one has analyzed how this extraordinary scandal fits into the larger narrative of puritan providentialism and its disenchantment. Focusing on the manipulation of providential language, this article shows that intra-Congregationalist conflicts over church polity could often be more political than theological. God-talk, or ‘providential pragmatism’, empowered New Englanders to navigate the ecclesiological ambiguities inherent in the Congregational system in a way that most benefited themselves. Davenport's scandal, precisely because it was the most blatant form of such pragmatism, offers a case study of a pattern of self-contradiction and double standard already observable in similar cases of schisms over church membership and infant baptism in late seventeenth-century New England.

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Reshetnikov, Yu Ye. "Calvinism and Arminianism in the teaching of evangelical Christian Baptists." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 15 (October 10, 2000): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2000.15.1088.

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The main difference between Calvinism and Arminianism lies in different approaches to the solution of the problem of the relation of providentialism and freedom of human freedom. This problem finds in theology its direct reflection in the soteriology, that is, the doctrine of salvation. In practice, however, it goes beyond these limits, since it reflects the attitude of man to the outside world, is the cornerstone of human world understanding, motivates its behavior. Therefore, it is understandable that interest in this topic during the entire existence of mankind, which found its embodiment in various theological and philosophical systems. Due to the fact that baptism plays a significant role in religious processes in Ukraine, occupying officially the fourth place in the number of its communities, uniting about 150 thousand believers, the issue of the issue in its teaching is also of interest. This is all the more since the theological views of a particular religious group are clearly reflected in the practical behavior of its supporters.

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DOWNS, JORDAN S. "THE CURSE OF MEROZ AND THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR." Historical Journal 57, no. 2 (2014): 343–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x13000381.

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ABSTRACTThis article attempts to uncover the political significance of the Old Testament verse Judges 5:23, ‘the curse of Meroz’, during the English Civil War. Historians who have commented on the printed text of Meroz have done so primarily in reference to a single edition of the parliamentarian fast-day preacher Stephen Marshall's 1642Meroz cursedsermon. Usage of the curse, however, as shown in more than seventy unique sermons, tracts, histories, libels, and songs considered here, demonstrates that the verse was far more widespread and politically significant than has been previously assumed. Analysing Meroz in its political and polemical roles, from the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion in 1641 and through the Restoration of Charles II in the 1660s, sheds new light on the ways in which providentialism functioned during the Civil Wars, and serves, more specifically, to illustrate some of the important means by which ministers and polemicists sought to mobilize citizens and construct party identities.

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EHRLICH, JOSHUA. "WILLIAM ROBERTSON AND SCIENTIFIC THEISM." Modern Intellectual History 10, no. 3 (2013): 519–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244313000206.

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Scholars have hitherto found little to no place for natural philosophy in the intellectual makeup of the Enlightened historian William Robertson, overlooking his significant contacts with that province and its central relevance to the controversy surrounding David Hume and Lord Kames in the 1750s. Here I reexamine Robertson's Situation of the World at the Time of Christ's Appearance (1755) in light of these contexts. I argue that his foundational sermon drew upon the scientific theism of such thinkers as Joseph Butler, Edmund Law, and Colin Maclaurin to counter the autonomous figurations of the universe associated with Hume and Kames, and to develop a historical account of progress based around Christian progressivism rather than the stadial theory of Adam Smith. Robertson conceived of history neither in secular terms nor in those of traditional religion, but sought instead to update the language of providentialism by naturalizing the sacred within a framework of general laws.

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Whyte, Jessica. "The Invisible Hand of Friedrich Hayek: Submission and Spontaneous Order." Political Theory 47, no. 2 (2017): 156–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591717737064.

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Friedrich Hayek’s account of “spontaneous order” has generated increasing interest in recent decades. His argument for the superiority of the market in distributing knowledge without the need for central oversight has appealed to progressive democratic theorists, who are wary of the hubris of state planning and attracted to possibilities for self-organization, and to Foucaultians, who have long counseled political theory to cut off the King’s head. A spontaneous social order, organized by an invisible hand, would appear to dispense with arbitrary power and foster creativity and individual liberty. This article challenges this view by highlighting the centrality of submission to Hayek’s account of spontaneous order. It shows that Hayek struggles to obscure the providentialism underpinning the account of social order he derives from Adam Ferguson and the Scottish Enlightenment. Nonetheless, his own account of spontaneous order relies on faith in the workings of the market, and submission to unintelligible market forces.

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Cortés Guadarrama, Marcos. "Hagiografía y medicina (I): intercesión de la santidad en el arte médico del Compendio de la humana salud (1494) de Johannes de Ketham." Medievalia 52, no. 2 (2020): 157–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.19130/medievalia.2020.52.2.171868.

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By means of two Latin writings, quickly translated into Spanish and published as incunabula: Flos sanctorum con sus ethimologías (derived from Legenda aurea) and Compendio de la humana salud (derived from Finis Fasciculi medicine), this work aims to examine the connection between hagiography and early modern medical arts. Generally, the narrative construction of the medical treatise from the 15th century —of a notorious providentialism— hasn´t been very analyzed, even less when it comes to saying that the hagiographic aspects, quoted in the medical literature, sustain and encourage a series of concepts and empirical procedures that were seeking the resurrection of health. This work will analyze the fact that there was a premeditated intention to emphasize some of the festivities from the liturgic calendar as key moments for making the phlebotomy treatment and for putting a diagnostic to the illness, through the knowledge of the human body´s pulse. Finally, it will be pointed the fact that the hagiographic references from the medical literature, also allude to a symbolic reading form inside the ideas of the Christian creed.

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Saad, Tlili. "A religion of accountability and the annihilation of divine providentialism in the last scene of hamlet: a cda perspective." International Journal of Recent Scientific Research 08, no. 05 (2017): 17082–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2017.0805.0278.

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Pires, Bruno, and Hermínia Gonçalves. "Transformative Processes of Gerontological Responses in Different Models of Public Providentialism in the COVID-19 Context: A Bibliometric Review." Societies 12, no. 5 (2022): 142. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc12050142.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire world population at multiple levels. Within the most vulnerable population, the elderly have seen their usual fragilities worsened in an epidemiological context. Thus, it was necessary to reinforce the gerontological response to aging at home, or in place, framed in situations of comorbidities, health problems, economic need and isolation, among other situations of premeditated situations of aging fragility. Objective: Seeking to explain a model of gerontological response to aging-in-place in future pandemic situations. For that purpose, we have explored, through a scientific literature review, the relationship between public participation and the gerontological response to aging-in-place during COVID-19, considering the four main European welfare models. During this analysis we also intended to identify the reconfigurations from those responses, considering their place-based/neutral order. Methodology: To proceed in this analysis, we used a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to identify a series of articles that add value to this problem. Next, in order to identify current research trends, we undertook a Bibliometric Analysis (BA), using the metadata from the same set of articles collected from Scopus and Web of Science. Results: The literature on the subject is interdisciplinary, dispersed throughout areas such as health; social sciences; politics; and computational, molecular, and even environmental fields of study. Through the use of keywords, the literature found on the relationship between the type of gerontological responses to aging-in-place and providence systems is still insufficient. There are, however, other research possibilities, such as exploring indicators of gerontological responses, of public expenditure or of the type of support from interlocutor stakeholders through a comparative study between countries, which allowed us to robustly answer the central question: Is there any relationship between the different public welfare systems and the public participation model, which included community participation, in the gerontological response to aging-in-place during the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Bremer, Francis J. "Godly Violence in the Puritan Atlantic World, 1636–1676: A Study of Military Providentialism. By Matthew Rowley." New England Quarterly 98, no. 2 (2025): 321–22. https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_01076.

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Zybała, Andrzej. "Wokół kultury umysłowej w Polsce — jej źródła i przejawy." Kultura i Społeczeństwo 61, no. 4 (2017): 103–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.35757/kis.2017.61.4.6.

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The author defines intellectual culture as a tendency to base decisions on objective analyses or the habit of investigating issues analytically. In the broader sense, intellectual culture may be considered to be the way the collective reacts to phenomena that appear in the real world. A high level of intellectual culture, in the author’s opinion, is shown by a modern form of thinking manifested in the ability to make use of abstracts and to take into account alternative systems of constructing opinions. On the basis of selected analyses of Polish scholars the author advances the hypothesis that Poland has failed to form proper institutional mechanisms favoring rational analysis in public life. The author demonstrates that this is the result of many factors, such as the long-lasting model of Sarmatian customs (including its providentialism), the strong and lasting influence of a radical form of romanticism, and also the nugatory influence of Enlightenment and positivist models. These factors have been accompanied by the unsuitability of educational and scholarly institutions, the delayed development of modern forms of economics, which force the use of rational calculations, and a structure of society that does not favor exchanges of ideas and deliberation.

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Guerras, Maria Sonsoles. "Paulo Orósio e o providencialismo no marco do Império Romano." Classica - Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos 2, no. 1 (2018): 123–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.24277/classica.v2i1.630.

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This work makes part of the collective research of some professors and students of the History Department – Sector of Ancient and Medieval History – of UFRJ, who are financed by CNPq. Ater making a brief biographical sketch of Paulo Orósio, contemporary of Agostinho from Hipona, we analise the traces of the classical Roman culture that can be found in his work: the authors who served as sources for him, Cicero’s doctrine of classic historiography that he follows, and so on. The second part contains an analysis of some facts from Roman history which are, in the point of view of the author of the "Seven Books of History", a clear demonstration of how Providence has made use of the Roman World to start a new era: Christ is born during August’s time, therefore these two events will be forever joint and the "Pax Romana" will be the very beginning of the "Pax Christi". The objective of work is the analysis of Paulo Orósio's historical providentialism, for whom the Roman Empire is God’s Instrument for getting to the real Universal Christian Empire. according to Daniel’s prophecy.

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HOLOVASCHENKO, Sergii. "Development of Theological-Apologetical Discourse in Biblical Studies at Kiev Theological Academy of the late XIX - early XX centuries." Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology, no. 21 (February 9, 2022): 43–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.29357/2521-179x.2018.21.3.

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The article highlights the development of hermeneutical strategies for the analysis and refutation of rationalist “negative” biblical criticism, represented by the works of leading theologians - professors of the Kiev Theological Academy of the late XIX - early XX centuries. In the conditions of secularization, the decline of church authority, the spread of political radicalism, the need for apologetic understanding of the biblical heritage increased. A systematic analysis of the signs, approaches and methods of rationalism in biblical studies has been heuristicly valuable, in particular: criticism of panlogism, abstract schematics, empirically groundless extrapolations and generalizations. At the same time, Kyiv Biblical scholars criticized the insolvent apologetic techniques: the literalistic view of the inspiration, the absolute authority of the tradition, the excessive spiritualization in the perception of the biblical prophecy. Their main goal was to prove the authenticity and authenticity of the content of biblical books and the very biblical hystory. The methodological impulse for the biblical apologetics was the intensification of supranaturalism, providentialism, and soteriology in the reading and interpretation of the Bible - just as the Holy Scriptures of the Church. The apologetic motive was to determine both scientific bibliological studies, and school teaching and study of the Bible, and private and public Biblical reading for religious and moral instruction.

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Pavlas, Petr. "Komeniáni v Karteziánském Zrcadle." Studia Neoaristotelica 16, no. 4 (2019): 41–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/studneoar20191646.

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The article picks up the threads of especially Martin Muslow’s 1990s research and describes the distinctiveness of the “relational metaphysics of resemblance” in the middle of the seventeenth century. The late Renaissance metaphysical outlines, carried out in the Comenius circle, are characteristic for their relationality, accent on universal resemblance, providentialism, pansensism, sensualism, triadism – and also for their effort to define metaphysical terms properly. While Comenians share the last – and only the last – feature with Cartesians, they differ in the other features. Therefore, Cartesians and Comenians cannot come to terms in the issue of the proper definitions either. Quite on the contrary, they oppose each other on this issue. By means of Johann Clauberg’s criticism of Georg Ritschel and René Descartes’s only supposedly “mysterious” and “solipsist” second meditation, the article turns a Cartesian mirror to the Comenian metaphysical project. In its light, the definitions of Georg Ritschel, Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld and Jan Amos Comenius turn out to be unacceptable for Cartesians (and also for Thomists and, in part, for Baconians). Despite their superficially Aristotelian-scholastic appearance, their content is notably Paracelsian-Campanellian (with a Timplerian foundation). Even though Comenian definitions of metaphysical terms had been refused and refuted by Cartesians, they experienced a second lifespan in their robust influence on Leibniz and Newton.

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Santos, Fernanda. "Gêneros retóricos na «Relação da missão da serra da Ibiapaba», do Padre Antônio Vieira." e-Letras com Vida: Revista de Estudos Globais — Humanidades, Ciências e Artes 08 (June 30, 2022): 39–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.53943/elcv.0122_39-54.

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«Relação da missão da serra da Ibiapaba» is a text by Father Antônio Vieira from 1660th. After some frustrated missions to the region, Vieira decides to write the report as a way to collect resources for the Ignatians and, above all, obtain a favorable position from the Portuguese Crown. It is intended to analyze the rhetorical preceptives of «Relação» and its belonging to the demonstrative (or ecfrasic), deliberative and judicial genres, from classic authors such as Aristotle, Plato and Quintiliano. If, on the one hand, the text does not shy away from showing the hardness of the obstacles faced by missionaries, on the other hand, Ibiapaba is configured as a locus amoenus, in horaceous terms. The text's descriptive capacity (evidentia) shows a series of historical, geographic and ethnographic elements that allow the understanding of the temporal and spiritual action of the Society of Jesus in Portuguese America, in full Counter-Reform. The mission to Ibiapaba intends to allegorize, narratively, Ignatian conquests in Brazilian lands. More than that, «Relação» is based on the Society of Jesus’s providential theological-political thinking, with the inscription of the future in the events narrated. In addition to the classic authors mentioned above, the article is based on studies on the rhetorical genres of Rodolpho (2014), Santos (2018 and 2019), Guedes (2014), Pernot (2000) and within the scope of the allegorization and providentialism of Society of Jesus, Lima (2009), Hansen (1993 and 2017), Sartorelli (2011) and Luz (2018).

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Pohorila, L. M. "Social doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church: the creative work of women." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 51 (September 15, 2009): 142–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2009.51.2089.

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The urgency of the issues discussed in the article is due to the fact that a person always stood and will be at the center of the interests of any religious structure, and especially if that structure is such an authoritative, powerful and influential Church as the Roman Catholic one. Today, centralized Catholicism presents its social position as a moral improvement of a person through cooperation with other people for the sake of a common and perfect future. The purpose of the article is to examine the social concept of Catholicism, which is pervaded by the ideas of providentialism. The latter is characteristic of considering the social development of mankind in accordance with God's plan. The crown of creation of the Most High is man (man and woman, regardless of gender), so "the Church implements her plan through man, but not in the abstract, but in a concrete, living, social dimension," - says Cardinal Joseph Goffner. Through the constant evangelization of humanity, the Church seeks to influence the improvement of human life and seeks to point to Christianity as a faithful way of life. But a world where the horrors of war have been replaced by the "war of civilizations," you will not call the "war of cultures" perfect. Nor can one see the great desire of mankind for moral development, spiritual perfection, but only the desire for the accumulation of material goods.

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Suslov, Alexey Viktorovich, and Dmitrii Alekseevich Gusev. "Two Verticals, or the Paradox and Tragedy of Soviet Atheism." Философия и культура, no. 2 (February 2023): 76–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0757.2023.2.37992.

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The object of the study is atheism and theism as important ideological components of two opposing solutions to the "main question of philosophy" – materialism and idealism – forming two systems of human life navigation. The subject of the study is two ideological paradigms – Soviet atheism and Orthodox Christianity. Materialism and atheism are the fundamental elements of the Marxist doctrine underlying the philosophy and culture of the Soviet period of Russian history, opposing theism, creationism and providentialism of the Christian understanding of the world and man, characteristic of the ideological paradigm of pre–revolutionary Russia. The purpose of the study is to clarify and substantiate the ideological intersection of these seemingly incompatible ideological positions. One of the objectives of the study is to substantiate their vertical semantic and value orientation. The novelty of the research, in particular, lies in the substantiation of the statement that two incompatible ideological poles represent varieties of the classical philosophical tradition with its vertical value-semantic orientation, and together oppose the main orientation of non-classical philosophy based on a horizontal scale of meanings and values. One of the main conclusions is that the vertical of Soviet materialism and atheism is a paradox and at the same time its tragedy: surprisingly, due to the vertical orientation of Soviet culture – formally atheistic – it is actually permeated with religious intuitions, questions, problems, ideas and plots disguised as secular concepts and terms, which finds its manifestation in various works of Soviet artistic culture.

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Tchamba, Augustin. "Ethical Implications of Deceit in Religious Narratives." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science VIII, no. XII (2025): 1032–45. https://doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2024.8120087.

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This paper investigates the ethical dimensions of divine deception through a case study of the biblical story of Hebrew midwives in Exodus 1. It zeroes in on the moral dilemma faced by the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah from Exodus, who courageously defied Pharaoh’s directive to kill newborn boys. The narrative pits faith against ethics and deception against a higher moral calling, then asks whether there is any justification for lying in the latter’s execution. The midwives’ story is an object lesson in examining big-picture moral philosophy, e.g., providentialism, cross-temporal differences, or the intersection of civil disobedience and laws regarding a whistleblower concept (the ethical practice of revealing information that is believed to be evidence of wrongdoing). This mirrors the moral quandary when the authority conflicts with the moral code. By conducting contextual, interpretive, and semantic analysis, the thesis highlights the depth of the midwives’ actions and the lessons they hold for current ethical conundrums, like the ethics of civil disobedience and the moral significance of whistleblowing. It raises the question of how spirituality informs decision-making today. No matter how one interprets the moral standing behind the midwives’ decisions, the paper ultimately asserts that this is a central parable with a potent allegory about the moral crossroads one faces between justice, mercy, and supporting oppression. It ends with the lesson that deception is not a means to an end and that God does not support deception in reaching something higher. The midwives were praised for fearing God, not for lying.

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Егоров, П. Е. "SLAVERY AND THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION IN PUBLICISM AND FICTION IN THE USA IN 20-50 YEARS XIX CENTURY." Вестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: История, no. 2(66) (August 28, 2023): 105–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.26456/vthistory/2023.2.105-112.

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Статья посвящена анализу религиозного аспекта дискуссий о рабстве в США 20–50x гг. XIX в. На основе анализа самоидентификации противни-ков и сторонников рабства выявлены ключевые вопросы, вокруг которых проходили общественно-политические дебаты. Автор раскрывает своеобразие нравственной культуры рабовладельцев и аболиционистов, убеждённых в своей особой «цивилизаторской» миссии. Центральное место в статье отводится их представлениям об общественном устройстве, истории, морали, христианстве, правах женщин и чернокожих. Выделены характерные черты американского провиденциализма Второго «Великого Пробуждения», а также публицистические и художественные произведения, которые пользовались популярностью в начале XIX в. В заключении сделан вывод о том, что литературная борьба за понимание рабства обществом оказала прямое влияние на расовые противоречия современной Америки. The article devoted to the analysis of the religious aspect of discussions about slavery in the USA in the 20–50s. XIX century. Based on the analysis of the self-identification of opponents and supporters of slavery, the key issues around which the socio-political debate took place were identified. The author reveals the originality of the moral culture of slave owners and abolitionists, convinced of their special "civilizing" mission. The central place in the article is given to their ideas about the social structure, history, morality, Christianity, the rights of women and blacks. The characteristic features of the American providentialism of the Second «Great Awakening», as well as journalistic and artistic works that were popular at the beginning of the 19th century, are highlighted. In conclusion, it is concluded that the literary struggle for the understanding of slavery by society had a direct impact on the racial contradictions of modern America.

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