Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination.
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- noun Previous
ordination orappointment ;predetermination ;predestination .
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- noun (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)
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Examples
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His choice of the plan, or His making certain that the creation should be on this order, we call His foreordination or His predestination.
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If a distinction be desired the word "foreordination" can perhaps better be used where the thing spoken of is an event in history or in nature, while
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"foreordination" are here mentioned, and the one as the cause of the other.
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Bush, George W., as heeder of invisible bugles, 64; Oedipal complexity of, 64-66; goading laughter of, 66; as frustrated dilettante, 66; as lover of backfiring cars, 66; blessedness of, 66; foreordination of, 128
Who's Who 2005
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Bush, George W., as heeder of invisible bugles, 64; Oedipal complexity of, 64-66; goading laughter of, 66; as frustrated dilettante, 66; as lover of backfiring cars, 66; blessedness of, 66; foreordination of, 128
Who's Who 2005
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Bush, George W., as heeder of invisible bugles, 64; Oedipal complexity of, 64-66; goading laughter of, 66; as frustrated dilettante, 66; as lover of backfiring cars, 66; blessedness of, 66; foreordination of, 128
Who's Who 2005
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In the third century B.C. Cleanthes, for example, argued that foreordination by Providence does not imply that an action not performed is not possible.
FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM BERNARD BEROFSKY 1968
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The Socinians and Unitarians, while not so evangelical as the Arminians, are at this point more consistent; for after rejecting the foreordination of
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Foreknowledge must not be confused with foreordination.
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The whole difficulty lies in the acts of free agents being certain; yet certainty is required for foreknowledge as well as for foreordination.
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