The artist might have picked any of a number of other occasions that were more memorable and could have proven more visually compelling and dramatic: Sept. 22, for example, when a resolute Lincoln read to the cabinet a story by Artemus Ward and spoke of God's providence before issuing the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
It is "not far-fetched" (wa lâ yab'ud), Avicenna says, that the imaginative faculties of such persons are able to depict the emanated universal intelligible forms in particular, sensory, terms.[43] Prophecy is thus a natural, if exceptional, occurrence for Avicenna, who equivocates on the issue of personal providence.
In 1684, Malebranche also responded to Arnauld's Idées, and after a further exchange on the topic of the nature of ideas the debate turned to the theological issues concerning divine providence, grace and miracles.
Another issue related to divine providence is the efficacy of past-directed prayers.
Even though the tone of the piece is strongly fideistic, Valla does not shrink from discussing the issue of God's providence and free will, just as he had tried to analyze the Trinity in his Repastinatio.
Or maybe it was simply a matter of providence.
And let providence, or divine intervention, take it from there.
Providence Health System in Portland, Oregon provided a database of practices (n = 933) for this study.
For Gersonides, the issues of prophecy, omniscience and providence are developed against the backdrop of astrological determinism.
In what follows, we provide a brief survey of work on the three topics in contemporary philosophical theology that aside from general issues concerning the nature, attributes, and providence of God have received the most attention from philosophers of religion over the past quarter century.
