$360, a providential number for things that spin!
But if animals can move through a landscape dominated by humans, they can also get themselves into trouble, particularly if terrain that looks like providential habitat turns out to be full of unseen peril — what conservation biologists call an ecological trap.
Women clearly have a special providential role to play in spreading the word of the Lord.
After a long digression on the role of Rome in the providential design of human history, he turns from political to philosophical authority, citing Aristotle as in effect the governor of the mind, "master and leader of human reason insofar as it is directed to man's highest work" [4.6.8].
The relatively straight line that we hope our lives might follow can veer suddenly, plunging us into chaos or ecstasy; choices can turn frantically ominous or prudently providential.
What's more, its opening in the immediate shadow of Sept. 11 turned out to be oddly providential.
Insurers saw the state as a dangerous competitor in the market for security, and took great strides (through advertising, public relations campaigns, and extensive lobbying) to convince Americans to turn away from the idea of a providential state, and to instead embrace privatized security.
Thus history yields its providential meaning in the shape of a play that is both history and romance.
Nor were viewers wrong to be uncertain about this, as the very similar series Babylon 5 (1993-1998) also included prophecies, and providential language, and things that looked like angels, but these all turned out to be the result of aliens, time travel, and genetic manipulation.
There seems almost to be something Schulzian about the providential way a few pages on the floor of a bombed-out building will turn out to be one of Schulz's letters.
In a number of papers, David Hunt has defended the providential utility of foreknowledge without middle knowledge.
