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The doctrine of predestination is probably the most controversial aspect of Calvinism.Calvinism = the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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The downtown I remember — drab, Calvinistic, with white men in dark overcoats marching in lockstep on the sidewalks, interspersed with the occasional woman, in regulation high heels, gloves and hat, clutch purse under the arm, eyes front — is simply gone, but then it's been gone for some time.† (source)Calvinistic = of the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking.† (source)
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Major Major's father had a Calvinist's faith in predestination and could perceive distinctly how everyone's misfortunes but his own were expressions of God's will.† (source)Calvinist = an adherent to the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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Centuries ago Calvinist faith turned the cathedral into a hangar, its only function being to keep the prayers of the faithful safe from rain and snow.† (source)
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But because Lincoln never attached himself to an organized religion as an adult, his ability to combine the secular and the religious in the way he goes about his life will later have everyone from atheists to humanists to Calvinists claiming that he is one of theirs.† (source)Calvinists = adherents to the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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Eugene looked at the dull earnest faces, lured from the solid pews of Calvinism to the shadowland of metaphysics.† (source)Calvinism = the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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Having fairly well advanced his own affairs, Angel listened in a willing silence, as they jogged on together through the shady lanes, to his father's account of his parish difficulties, and the coldness of brother clergymen whom he loved, because of his strict interpretations of the New Testament by the light of what they deemed a pernicious Calvinistic doctrine.† (source)Calvinistic = of the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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I felt a sharp pang of homesickness, and abruptly wondered what in God's name was I doing here in the unimaginable reaches of Brooklyn, an ineffective and horny Calvinist among all these Jews?† (source)Calvinist = an adherent to the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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It was the Calvinists, sir, who reduced it to this condition.† (source)Calvinists = adherents to the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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A definition which tho' savoring of Calvinism, by no means involves Calvin's dogmas as to total mankind.† (source)Calvinism = the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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Once more he saw himself the young banker's clerk, with an agreeable person, as clever in figures as he was fluent in speech and fond of theological definition: an eminent though young member of a Calvinistic dissenting church at Highbury, having had striking experience in conviction of sin and sense of pardon.† (source)Calvinistic = of the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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This was a junta of Calvinist fanatics who felt that the Estates-General, controlled by the privileged classes, no longer represented the skilled workers, had lost touch entirely with the people.† (source)Calvinist = an adherent to the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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I've heard a deal o' doctrine i' my time, for I used to go after the Dissenting preachers along wi' Seth, when I was a lad o' seventeen, and got puzzling myself a deal about th' Arminians and the Calvinists.† (source)Calvinists = adherents to the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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There were still people in Clyde who remembered the frontier, and like America itself, the town lived by a mixture of diluted Calvinism and a strong belief in "progress," Young Sherwood, known as "Jobby"—the boy always ready to work—showed the kind of entrepreneurial spirit that Clyde respected: folks expected him to become a "go-getter," And for a time he did.† (source)Calvinism = the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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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.† (source)Calvinistic = of the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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