Shoghi Effendi’s View of Providential History in Light of the Judaeo-Christian Tradition

by Jack McLean

published in Bahá’í Studies Review, 2005

This paper is a shortened and modified version of `Providential History: The Renewal of an Ancient Idea,’ Chapter six of A Celestial Burning: The Writings of Shoghi Effendi. See also simplified version of this paper, Shoghi Effendi’s Concept of History.