Word: calvinistic
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...Afrikaners have long believed that their nation struck a special covenant with God ordaining them to preserve a Christian civilization. South Africa is, in a sense, the last Protestant theocracy on earth. In a country where American-style separation of church and state is as foreign as interracial marriage, Calvinist piety pervades schoolroom and board room...
Scotty Reston of the New York Times overrated? This seems a melancholy assessment to those many who have long regarded him as Washington's ablest journalist-the role model of an aggressive competitor and fair reporter, with great sources, literate style and Calvinist integrity. The Washingtonian quotes one Reston colleague: "His problem is over-access. He gets to see people others can't see and he believes them and blows their horn." But surely, to be able to quote Carter's or Kissinger's private comment accurately is to provide valuable information. Reston's real...
...year-old gunpowder manufacturer concerned about the "decay of virtue, public and private," began a school with a noble idea: to teach ''the great end and real business of living." The school itself was more humble: 13 students, ages six to 30, enrolled under the tutelage of Calvinist Eliphalet ("Elephant") Pearson in a converted carpenter's shop in Andover, Mass. "On Monday the scholars recite what they can remember of the sermons heard on the Lord's day previous," wrote Pearson in 1780. "On Saturday the bills are paid and the punishments administered...
...source of both aspiration and destruction, the most fundamental ingredient for survival and, in the struggle between license and restraint, the means by which human beings exercise their freedom. David's comparison of Claire's natural goodness with his own tormented personality suggests a kind of Calvinist philosophy in which there are the elect, those visited by natural grace, and those outside the pale who are doomed to wander in the shadows, vainly seeking salvation in each new relationship...
...their own these moderates might be prepared to make significant concessions, even though they too may be fearful about their future should a black majority come to power. In any case real political control remains in the hands of verkrampte (literally, cramped, or narrow-minded) Afrikaners-a proud, stubborn, Calvinist people with an imperious sense of their divine mission to lead Africa out of darkness. Reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs...