Word: predestinationism
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Eastern Subtraction. The Russians had made their choice. With their own ideas of economic predestination, they would not even be present in John Calvin's grey old city. The postwar deals that Soviet trade chief Anastas Mikoyan has been arranging made it clear that Russian trade would be based...
Calvinism was once virtually the American Faith. It came to New England with the Puritans, to New York with the Dutch Reformed, to Pennsylvania with the German Reformed. And wherever Scottish Presbyterians went in the U.S., predestination, 90-minute sermons, and the "Shorter Catechism" went with them.
There were four brothers then, Army men by predestination. Their father, Colonel Edward J. Timberlake, was a ramrod-straight soldier, Class of '93, who played for West Point in the first Army-Navy football game in 1890. On duty at West Point from 1919 to 1929, he proudly watched...
Wesley also made the printing press an effective weapon in his holy wars. Calvinists, enraged at his teaching Free Grace instead of Predestination, answered him thus in The Gospel Magazine:
Predestination found no harbor here,