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When people hear the words "God" and "election" in the same sentence, they usually brace for a heated discussion on the doctrine of predestination and the implications of what various theologians ...

When I talk to newcomers to Christianity, they often have a hang-up which is rather funny when you think about it. Many struggle with the doctrine of predestination — specifically, the Calvinistic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Set in the context of the Cambridge debates on grace and predestination in the 1590s, and of the wider controversy in the Reformed and Roman ...

Historically, religious language and phrases have crept into the church that have been a great influence on our thinking. Often, without the user really understanding why, or for what reason, they may ...

In Hamlet Shakespeare uses the stage presentation as a metaphor for the situation of every human being who is predestined to act in a certain way while remaining responsible for his acts: the play as ...