Not To Be Confused With
Providence is God's loving governance through means (including human choices); fatalism is impersonal fate with no purpose; deism is a God who winds up the world and withdraws. Providence is neither.
From Latin providere, “to see ahead, provide.” Providence covers preservation (holding all things in being, Heb 1:3), concurrence (working in and through secondary causes), and government (steering history). “All things work together for good” (Rom 8:28) is its pastoral edge — and the problem of evil its hardest test.