A Christian Worldview of History is as defined a much by what it is not than by what it is. From that starting point we are have the above depiction of Cotton Mather, a noted early American Providentialist historian. His view that the discovery of the Americas and the colonization of it by Puritans and Pilgrims was the discernible will of God to create a country founded by divine principles is an example of Providential History. He was not an outlier in his historical approac