| Critical to Calvinism was the doctrine of predestination, which regarded the salvation or damnation of each soul as preordained. |
| In the 1860s a controversy over predestination among Midwestern Lutherans caused further splits that lasted well into the twentieth century. |
| Insisting as I do on the priority of divine grace, I can accept the doctrine of predestination in certain forms. |
| This has significant implications for some theological concepts, particularly predestination and free will, which is where I began. |
| Hooker saw that the doctrine of predestination was, for most people, a counsel of despair. |
| Foreknowledge is not foreordination, predestination, or even predetermination. |
