Providence

God's ongoing care and governance of creation — not determinism, but the infinite wisdom that works through free acts.

Providence (pronoia, foreknowledge-and-care) is God's ongoing sustaining of creation and guidance of history toward its eschatological fulfillment. The patristic tradition insists that providence does not eliminate human freedom but works through it: God's infinite wisdom can work the good in and through the free choices of creatures, even sinful ones, without thereby causing or approving those choices.