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He writes of the relationship between work and play in tribal agrarian myth and the Calvinian inspired cultures such as the Norwegian protestants and the European descendant Americans:
thinking with my fingers Torill 2002
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For the drill of Parson Huntington in Calvinian theology for nearly a year past now came up, enforced by the instructions of childhood, with fresh power; and she began to suspect that she was one of the "ordained reprobates," "passed by and doomed from eternity to endless ruin!"
Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er Elizabeth Arnold Hitchcock
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The Calvinian controversy was long and bitter, being succeeded by a
Fletcher of Madeley Brigadier Margaret Allen
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Her father sought to confine her to that sort of diet -- at home, at church, everywhere; for his only hope of rescuing her from Methodism seemed to center in a thorough course of Calvinian instruction, excluding with rigid surveillance everything Arminian.
Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er Elizabeth Arnold Hitchcock
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His preaching tours were interfered with by this work, but he deemed himself to be doing as much, if not more, for God by pouring the daylight of heavenly reason upon the errors which darkened the minds, narrowed the perspective, and burdened the hearts of so many in that day of Calvinian controversy.
Fletcher of Madeley Brigadier Margaret Allen
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All became church members, and so lived and died, but all in Calvinian communions; while all of Elizabeth's children became Methodists, and two of her sons, as we have seen, itinerant ministers.
Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er Elizabeth Arnold Hitchcock
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Even the Reformed theologian A. Schweizer admits as much when he says in his _Zentraldogmen_ (1, 445): "In the Zwinglio-Calvinian type of doctrine, predestination is a dogma important as such and regulating the other doctrines, yea, as Martyr, Beza, and others say, the chief part of Christian doctrine; while in the Lutheran type of doctrine it is merely a dogma supporting other, more important central doctrines."
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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Lasco also wrote two books against Westphal and Timann, defending his congregation at Frankfort, and endeavoring to show the agreement between the Calvinian doctrine of the Lord's Supper and the _Augsburg Confession_.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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He runs a tilt with Calvinian orthodoxy as Methodism does, and loves God and his fellow-men and a good woman, and finds no toil burdensome if he may be of spiritual help and healing.
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The Calvinian representation of the Arminian doctrines, and the proceedings of the synod, may be seen in the late Mr. Scott's _Articles of the Synod of
The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands Charles Butler 1791
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