necessitarianism

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His necessitarianism is modern, his scepticism is modern, and the difficulties in which it arises are modern too.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh

Abelard's necessitarianism and Gilbert's Spinozism, if Bernard understood them right, were equally impossible theology, and the Church could by no evasion escape the necessity of condemning both.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

There is, we must confess, a good deal of such sophistry to-day in the use of arguments drawn from the current philosophy of necessitarianism and the idea of heredity.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles

But then the Daily News suddenly lights up the gloom of necessitarianism with bright beams of hope.

From Culture and Anarchy by Arnold, Matthew

But the political reconstruction which he proposes is too much determined by this old nightmare of necessitarianism.

From What I Saw in America by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)