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predestinarianism
noun as in fatalism
Strong matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Luther's sermons and books preached and published before as well as after 1525 refute the idea that he ever made predestination, let alone predestinarianism, the center of his teaching and preaching.
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."
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.
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.
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'.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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