Postures towards Providence

In former days, professing Christians largely held to the biblical truth concerning the providence of God. It is true, people meant different things by it, and not all of it was accurate. Yet people would still espouse some idea of God controlling all events in the world, great and small, and working out His will through them. Now, it appears that many, including some self-acclaimed evangelicals, have cast off this doctrine as baggage from a by-gone age.