predestinarianism

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The Confessio Belgica, of 1559, and the Confessio Gallicana, of 1561, teach the same absolute predestinarianism.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)

These doctrines show that Victorinus is involved in a dualistic view of matter, and in a form of predestinarianism; but he has no definite teaching on the relation of sin to the ideal world.

From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph

The wildness of an Antinomian predestinarianism has never been so grandly painted as in `Johannes Agricola in Meditation'; the white heat of the persecutor glares on us, like a nightmare spectre, in `The Heretic's Tragedy'.

From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Corson, Hiram

He seems, however, to have gotten along fairly well except with one "female," who, from all accounts, was given over in about equal parts to "universalism" and "predestinarianism."

From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)

It had none of the sweep which carried the justification doctrines of Luther, or the systematic predestinarianism of Calvin, or the "platform of discipline" of John Knox and the Puritans.

From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)