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When a novelist needs a coincidence to rescue the plot is invoking providence cheating? "There's a divinity that shapes our ends": what Hamlet means about providence just before the duel. Why Roger Williams named his settlement Providence and what he thought it had saved him from. Why did the Declaration of Independence invoke providence instead of naming a church? Is providence in a novel any different from fate or just the politer word for the same plot device? Eucatastrophe: Tolkien's name for the sudden good turn he thought every fairy story reaches for. Manifest Destiny: how a word about providence got attached to a war of expansion. Does the plan include the suffering or only redeem it afterwards Whig history: the Victorian habit of reading the past as providence slowly working itself out. Is "the arc of history" a secular providence that survives without God? Why does the idea of a plan appeal most to people in the middle of a disaster Everything happens for a reason is a claim about a blueprint — is it ever falsifiable Reading providence into a pandemic: what clergy claimed at the time and later walked back. The invisible hand is providence with the theology taken out: what Adam Smith actually left behind. Blueprint metaphors for providence come from architecture — what do other metaphors change

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