Word: predestinationism
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To predestination Calvin added such corollary conclusions as "particular redemption" (God's picking and choosing the elect), "moral inability" (the impossibility of doing anything to save oneself), "invincible grace" (the impossibility of doing anything to damn oneself if God has decreed otherwise) and "final perseverance" (the guarantee that all...
Presbyterians number 3.2 million, governed by elected representatives organized in sessions, presbyteries, synods and an annual General Assembly, headed by a Moderator and Stated Clerk (chief executive officer). The Presbyterian Church was built upon Calvinism, founded by John Calvin in the 16th century soon after Luther's break with...
Besides fatty obstructions, reported Tulane University's Dr. Homer D. Kirgis in San Francisco, the Circle of Willis can also be afflicted by a kind of malign predestination. Some people are candidates for certain types of strokes as a result of what happened-or didn't happen-before...
While only a confirmed horoscope addict will find all this fully convincing, any reader will be impressed by Author Fifield's rendering of the trancelike intensity with which the countess' conscious mind pearl-dives into her unconscious. Author Fifield speculates intriguingly on religious and metaphysical questions. Does the...
Consequences of Revolt. Luther inevitably dominates the stage, but Durant does well by the other great Reformation leaders-John Knox, the virtuoso of invective, and Calvin, the black icicle of theology for whose doctrine of predestination even-tempered Author Durant reserves one of his rare flashes of indignation ("We shall...