The Only Use of
Calvinism
in
Jane Eyre
- Throughout there was a strange bitterness; an absence of consolatory gentleness; stern allusions to Calvinistic doctrines — election, predestination, reprobation — were frequent; and each reference to these points sounded like a sentence pronounced for doom.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(Calvinism) the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone