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The Providential Order of the World

• Alexander Balmain Bruce

1896

University of Glasgow

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The Providential Order of the World

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Prefatory Note

Lecture 1: The Subject Introduced

Lecture 2: Man’s Place in the Universe

Lecture 3: Theistic Inferences from Man’s Place in the Universe

Lecture 4: Non-Moral Deity, or the Gods of Modern Pessimism

Lecture 5: The Worth of Life

Lecture 6: The Worth of Man

Lecture 7: The Power Making for Righteousness

Lecture 8: The Power Working in and for Humanity

Lecture 8: The Power Working in Humanity

Lecture 9: Providence in the Individual Life

Lecture 10: Providential Methods: Election

Lecture 11: Providential Methods: Solidarity

Lecture 12: Providential Methods: Progress by Sacrifice

Charles Scribner's Sons

1897

Alasdair MacIntyre began his 1988 Edinburgh Gifford Lectures as follows:

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