foreordination

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The son of a Congregational minister who believed in predestination and foreordination, he himself began with an intention of entering the ministry; but, after two years' preparation, turned to the law and politics.

From Time Magazine Archive

But if foreknowledge involves foreordination, then by the laws of logic He has foreordained sin.

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

His tales are tales of the conscience: he is obsessed with the thought of sin, with the doctrines of foreordination and total depravity.

From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

To bring the passage forward on behalf of universal foreordination is to assume the point in debate, and it is therefore inadmissible.

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

Origin and destiny did not trouble them; predestination and justification by faith were not even in their curriculum; foreordination and baptism were to them problems not to be taken seriously.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Hubbard, Elbert