Word: calvinist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adam's fall, for instance, elicits a variety of interpretations, from the Catholic teaching on "original sin" to the Calvinist idea of "total depravity," the essential corruption of all man's powers. The authors point out that Jews in particular "do not hold that man is permanently tainted with guilt as a result" of Adam's sin, and quote also the second of the Mormon Articles of Faith, which states that "men will be punished for their own sins and not for Adam's transgressions." Unusual interpretations by smaller sects are noted elsewhere in the Reader...
...only now approved the installation of television sets within the cloisters (it had hitherto authorized limited use of radios and newspapers), most of the 51 cloistered communities in The Netherlands already have TV. Most have also removed the bars that used to separate them from visitors; some even welcome Calvinist ministers and their congregations for debates. Though the Vatican has urged communities to become self-supporting through handicrafts or other works, it doubtlessly did not have in mind the job that one Dutch convent does for a nearby pharmaceutical factory-packaging birth-control pills...
...organizations have much in common. Both adhere to a Calvinist theology and are cautiously conservative on such social issues as black equality. The Southern Presbyterians were formed at the outbreak of the Civil War; membership in the church is almost entirely white, and its pastorate is largely traditionalist in outlook. The Reformed Church-many of its oldest congregations are still known as Dutch Reformed-is strong in the East and Midwest, also has a predominantly white, middle-class membership. If the union is approved, the logical next step would be merger with the 3.3 million-member, liberal United Presbyterian Church...
...Georgene had brought to their affair, like a dowry of virginal lace, this lightness, this guiltlessness." Piet responds not to the excitement but to the wondrous ease of it all, the astonishing luxury of fornication with eager women behind bedroom walls apparently opaque to the fierce eye of his Calvinist...
...Galbraiths were not as joyless as most of their neighbors, whom Galbraith limns in the bittersweet memoir, The Scotch, but the children were still imbued with their neighbors' stern Calvinist ways. "Sexual intercourse," he wrote, "was, under all circumstances, a sin. Marriage was not a mitigation so much as a kind of license of mis behavior, and we were free from the countervailing influences of movies, television, and John O'Hara." After a not particularly brilliant high school career, Galbraith entered Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, "not only the cheapest but probably the worst college in the English-speaking world...