predestinationism

A lot of people who recoil from absolute predestinationism seem to believe in such a God—perhaps because he is not arbitrary like the predestinarian, but more closely matches our natural ideas about justice.

Advent discipline: the right atheism Mike L 2007

A lot of people who recoil from absolute predestinationism seem to believe in such a God—perhaps because he is not arbitrary like the predestinarian, but more closely matches our natural ideas about justice.

Archive 2007-12-01 Mike L 2007

In the ninth century, a new victory was gained over the predestinationism of Gottschalk in the assemblies of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

It has not been grasped, not only by the opponents of liberty, and hence by the Reformers of the sixteenth century, but even today, by Protestant critics the most opposed to the cruel predestinationism of Calvin and Luther who father that doctrine on St. Augustine.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Augustine, God, in his creative decree, has expressly excluded every order of things in which grace would deprive man of his liberty, every situation in which man would not have the power to resist sin, and thus Augustine brushes aside that predestinationism which has been attributed to him.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Augustine first taught the milder system (post merita), up to the year 416 (In Joan. evang., tract. xii, n. 12) and that afterwards, towards 418, he shifted his ground and went to the extreme of harsh assertion, amounting even to predestinationism.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Simon, and others have maintained that Augustine had been in error on the very gist of the problem, and had really taught predestinationism.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

In the fourteenth century a strong current of predestinationism is evident.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Jansenius 'work represents a whole system of theology, which is, of course, very close to Calvinism and predestinationism in general

Vox Nova 2009

VI, can. 2); against Protestant predestinationism it proclaimed the freedom of man, with his double power of resisting grace (posse dissentire si velit -- Sess.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913