Providential history is not dead.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi5qDOllLes]For a different Christian view of providential history check out chapter four of Why Study History: Reflections on the Importance of the Past.
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David Barton: 18th century European conceptions of gentlemanly honor = inexplicable miracle. http://www.revolutionarywararchives.org/biography-link/81-major-patrick-ferguson-and-george-washington