But the effect of predestination may be furthered by their prayers, and by other good works also. |
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Critical to Calvinism was the doctrine of predestination, which regarded the salvation or damnation of each soul as preordained. |
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Foreknowledge is not foreordination, predestination, or even predetermination. |
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In the 1860s a controversy over predestination among Midwestern Lutherans caused further splits that lasted well into the twentieth century. |
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This has significant implications for some theological concepts, particularly predestination and free will, which is where I began. |
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Hooker saw that the doctrine of predestination was, for most people, a counsel of despair. |
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Insisting as I do on the priority of divine grace, I can accept the doctrine of predestination in certain forms. |
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As we study today's text, it's tempting to invest the majority of our time dealing with the theological issue of predestination. |
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Absalom's final sermon before ordination was on the gospel, heathen, and predestination. |
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These churches professed a belief in predestination, a theological tenet that suggests the futility of the ambitious pursuit of wealth. |
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He also retained a belief in predestination and in an unfathomable Providence overseeing the affairs of the world. |
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The doctrine of predestination is associated with Protestant pioneer John Calvin of Geneva. |
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Bede's allusions are made in the context of an early medieval theology of grace and predestination. |
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But as Weber acknowledged, its doctrines, especially predestination, were problematic for living in this world. |
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On this latter point, Kent includes Calvinists and their doctrines of predestination and election. |
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At the moment opinions differ too much to formulate a doctrine of predestination that is acceptable for all parties. |
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This strong sense of predestination is a characteristic element in Greene's work and explains much of its antinomian flavor. |
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Defoe's story is an anguished inquiry into questions of predestination and election, freedom and theodicy. |
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For centuries, theologians have puzzled and debated the topic of predestination. |
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Economic Calvinism holds the doctrine that industry, thrift, and economic success is evidence of one's predestination. |
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I got the impression he was coming from a universalist background, but he could have been talking about predestination. |
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Graham Greene's religious vision is neither heterodox, antinomian, nor driven by predestination. |
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This is an act of predestination with regard to the individuals affected that cannot be legitimised even by a possible therapeutic objective. |
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While predestination was central to Calvin's thinking, it was not primary. |
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Here he came to change his religious views, rejecting Calvinism which had the notion of predestination as a metaphysical necessity and the basis of faith. |
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Hastings agreed with and supported a strict doctrine of predestination. |
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For the Delphic Oracle to perform, it must tangle itself in a web of predestination. |
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Ever since they began to think and to question, the problem, or paradox, of freewill versus predestination has always bothered humankind. |
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What is predestination at one level is nothing but freewill on a deeper level. |
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Apparently, they also believed that Deity didn't intervene too much in the lives of men, as opposed to the predestination of the Pharisees. |
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This divine predestination however is realized in a very concrete and human way. |
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The sociologist Max Weber has shown that the strong doctrines of predestination have not made people passive but active. |
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A belief in predestination may be a cowardly escape from the responsibility of making a positive decision and doing a positive action. |
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As declared in the Westminster and Second Helvetic confessions, the core doctrines are predestination and election. |
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He had to make do with the conflicts of peace. He first took on the French when he was 40, convinced that this was what he was born to do: Calvinists believe in predestination. |
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We must therefore be thankful for His predestination. |
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Whitefield was a Calvinist, whereas Wesley was an outspoken opponent of the doctrine of predestination. |
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Wesleyan Methodists identify with the Arminian conception of free will, as opposed to the theological determinism of absolute predestination. |
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Karl Barth reinterpreted the Reformed doctrine of predestination to apply only to Christ. |
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This concept is seen clearly in the doctrines of predestination and total depravity. |
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His work also anticipates much of the later controversies over free will and predestination. |
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In the first years of the Republic, controversy arose within the Reformed Church, mainly around the subject of predestination. |
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Gregory reacted by charging that both the theory of the privative cause and the notion of the positive cause of predestination in those who are predestined are Pelagian. |
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Denying absolute predestination was easy enough, but articulating a middle ground between that and Arminianism proved a more difficult task. |
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It ascribes the salvation of man to the unmerited grace of God and thus to predestination, but it attributes divine reprobation to man's sin and guilt. |
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Osmose is a rare text in that it combines street slang with Fontenelle, classical Greek fate with modern genetic predestination. |
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In effect, the concept of predestination as it has been discussed by Weber did not come from Luther alone. |
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They discovered that people who break down ethanol slowly because of a certain genetic predestination, enjoy most the positive aspects of a moderate alcohol consumption, compared to people that digest alcohol more quickly. |
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God sometimes decimates or tithes delinquent persons, and they died for a common crime, according as God hath cast their lot in the decrees of predestination. |
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Near the end of the book, Calvin describes and defends the doctrine of predestination, a doctrine advanced by Augustine in opposition to the teachings of Pelagius. |
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However, because of their differences over the doctrines of divine predestination and election, many people view these schools of thought as opposed to each other. |
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Unlike the Calvinists of his day, Wesley did not believe in predestination, that is, that some persons had been elected by God for salvation and others for damnation. |
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Lutheran theology differs from Reformed theology in Christology, the purpose of God's Law, the divine grace, the concept of perseverance of the saints, and predestination. |
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