Would God Stop an Assassin’s Bullet? A Reflection on American Providentialism
Kody W. Cooper
Since its birth, providentialism—the belief that God actively governs human events according to his design and purposes—has been in America’s DNA. The tradition of presidential invocation of the Almighty’s blessing upon American endeavors has continued into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. So when multiple assassin’s bullets whizzed by former President Donald Trump’s head on that fateful July 13 afternoon, it wasn’t particularly surprising that theistic commentators, and Trump himself, saw the hand of God’s providence in the event. But is the judgment warranted? Who can know God’s secret providential will for the United States?
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