Word: predestinationism
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One orthodox dogma that Barth has tried to set aright-much to the dismay of other theologians in the Reformed Church -is the best-known and gloomiest of Calvinist tenets: predestination. In his Institutes, Calvin argued that God has already determined both those who will be saved at the Last...
The invitation to the closed-door session at Manhattan's Warwick Hotel was extended to Lutherans last October by Dr. James McCord, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, and secretary of the North American Area of the World Presbyterian Alliance. The dialogue was limited to exploratory topics, most importantly an...
Unhappily, in the present novel the author's spare style seems to be the product less of economy than of penury. The book consists of reminiscences by several former Edinburgh schoolgirls about an eccentric teacher who was the guru of their set. One of the girls betrayed the teacher...
St. Augustine, for one, consigned them to the eternal flames of hell, though the thought distressed him. "I am, believe me, beset by no small difficulties," he wrote, "and I am quite at a loss what to answer. Though I cannot define the nature of their damnation, yet I do...
WHAT remains is Riesman's approach to politics. There is a kind of intellectual predestination in the relative success of this work after a decade, for Riesman himself has become almost exclusively interested in political action. And in his more recent writing he pursues the threads of political action to...