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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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Indeed, I'm sure it was both my residual Calvinism and my clerical disguise—also that damnable church bell—which helped cause me to falter so badly when Sophie woke me.† (source)
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Eugene looked at the dull earnest faces, lured from the solid pews of Calvinism to the shadowland of metaphysics.† (source)
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Such is Calvinism,[239] Quakerism,[240] Swedenborgism.† (source)
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A definition which tho' savoring of Calvinism, by no means involves Calvin's dogmas as to total mankind.† (source)
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It became necessary, therefore, to destroy this last bulwark of Calvinism—a dangerous leaven with which the ferments of civil revolt and foreign war were constantly mingling.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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The power Barbara wields here—the power that wields Barbara herself—is not Calvinism, not Presbyterianism, not Methodism— UNDERSHAFT.† (source)
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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)
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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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It was the Calvinists, sir, who reduced it to this condition.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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