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

This—viz., that in the light of the drama of the fall, the doctrine of universal foreordination must be given up as a myth which ignores philosophy, and reflects injuriously upon the Divine character.

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

The objections thus adduced are, in our judgment, quite sufficient to condemn the dogma of universal foreordination.

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)

The judgment day, therefore, and foreordination of all things cannot stand in the same category.

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