Word: predestinationism
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Klingensmith discovered another passion sophomore year. After convincing the History Department to give him credit, he began trekking to the Divinity School for a course on Calvin. "I thought I knew something about Calvinism, and it seemed pretty abhorrent--beliefs in predestination, election, sovereignty." Despite extensive reading, Klingensmith ended the...
"The idea of infant sexuality and of the Oedipus complex can be accepted with a good deal more equinamity than the idea that the most precious and inviolate of entities--personal relations--is actually a messy jangle of misapprehensions, at best an uneasy truce between powerful solitary fantasy systems. Even...
It begins with no music, just a whipsaw wind. Through the gauze of dusk forms a cluster of stars-no, a spider's web -the filigree work of predestination, trapping every animal who will pass through this forest. A fox sprints over the tall grass, fear in her eyes...
Ultimately. Norton-Taylor shows, it was ideas that ruled Calvin and those around him. In God's Man those ideas are given a human dimension. The reader encounters Calvin's doctrines and doubts tossed in a mind as agonized as his tubercular body. The godfather of capitalism assures...
But as time passes, Caligula realizes that historical forces--not emperors--change mankind and that he too cannot escape fate, determinism, predestination. Caligula rebels against the Gods of fate. He tries, through murder and the systematic perversion of all values, to prove the liberty of his own will, challenging friendship...