Divine Providence: A History: The Bible, Virgil, Orosius, Augustine, and Dante

by Brenda Deen Schildgen

Book Overview

Holding divine intervention responsible for political and military success and failure has a long history in western thought. This book explores the idea of providential history as an organizing principle for understanding the divine purpose for humans in texts that may be literary, historical, philosophical, and theological.

Divine Providence shows that, with Virgil and the Bible as authoritative precursors to late antique views...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628920602
• ISBN13: 9781628920604
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"