| In fact the epical format viewed as the enactment of a predestinarian spiral whose end is never in doubt is indisputedly a mythical conception. |
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| But even as staunch a predestinarian as Jonathan Edwards had to allow for more moral choice. |
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| Leibniz's doctrine was too predestinarian even for Protestants, for it implied that God was the author of sin. |
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| Edwards also regarded himself as a predestinarian but admitted that the intricacies of election escaped him. |
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| Early Baptists, of course, found themselves restrained by Calvinist predestinarian tenets. |
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| This is not incompatible with Protestantism, but it is certainly a very long way from its extreme wings, such as predestinarian Calvinism. |
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| Puritanism entails hostility to the traditional culture as well as enthusiasm for sermons and predestinarian theology. |
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| Less obviously, the ramifications of his predestinarian views changed his understanding of the role of clergy in the Eucharist. |
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| The expedition, recounted in White's demanding but succulent prose, is brilliantly conveyed, a ripping tale as written by a predestinarian deity. |
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| Through the first Puritan settlers, the predestinarian theology of Augustine and Calvin was injected into the mainstream of American theology and intellectual life. |
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| I myself have never had the slightest twitch of predestinarian thinking or feeling but many good and wise people certainly see such patterning in their lives all the time. |
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| His self and his experience have been predetermined not by the predestinarian God he fervently worships but by those around him who continue to perceive him as enslavable. |
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| Claudio's first lines onstage give this ambiguation of vice and virtue explicitly predestinarian implications. |
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| Hunt argues that the play, while representing an apparently strictly predestinarian universe, ends up provoking a critique of that same theology. |
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| This should be read as an opposition against the strict predestinarian thoughts in the later works of Augustine. |
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| Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists maintain a doctrine of the two seeds. |
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