{"id":124,"date":"2006-09-26T05:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/09\/26\/fate-as-providence\/"},"modified":"2006-09-26T05:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T05:44:00","slug":"fate-as-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/09\/fate-as-providence\/","title":{"rendered":"Fate as Providence"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Now, Christian theology by no means opposes the idea that all things were known and determined by God from eternity. To that extent it even recognized a &#8220;fate,&#8221; and some theologians believed they could also use the word in a good sense. If we remember, says Augustine, that <i>fatum<\/i> is a derivative of <i>fari<\/i> and then describe by means of it the eternal and unchanging word by which God sustains all things, the name can be justified. Boethius referred to fate as &#8220;a disposition inherent in changeable things by which Providence connects all things in their due order.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-Bavinck, <em>God and Creation,<\/em> 600. <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Fate&#8221; could, in a pinch, still have a good meaning in the Christian world-and-life view; but chance <i>(casus)<\/i> and fortune <em>(fortuna)<\/em> are un-Christian through and through.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-ibid, 603.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, Christian theology by no means opposes the idea that all things were known and determined by God from eternity. To that extent it even recognized a &#8220;fate,&#8221; and some theologians believed they could also use the word in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/09\/fate-as-providence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}