Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- πρόνοια
- Transliteration
- prónoia
- Rejected alternatives
- πρόνοια με τη σύγχρονη έννοια της κοινωνικής πρόνοιας (social welfare)
Providence
God’s personal, purposive governance; established theological term, but Modern Greek ‘πρόνοια’ is also the standard word for state social-welfare provision (‘Υπουργείο Πρόνοιας’), a secular institutional sense that should not crowd out the theological one.
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