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Foreordination

noun
1.
(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).  Synonyms: predestination, predetermination, preordination.






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"Foreordination" Quotes from Famous Books



... his wooden shoes, with scarce a thought beyond his daily toil. His Sunday is a fete for dancing and recreation. Go through New England, and you will find the laborer, as he lays his stone fence, discussing the consistency of foreordination with free will, or perchance settling some more practical mooted point in politics. On Sunday this laborer gets up his wagon, and takes his wife and family to church, to hear two or three sermons, in each of which there are more elements ...
— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... so absolutely linked up with election that you cannot deny imminency without denying election; and to deny election is to deny God Himself, deny Him in the very essence of His own prerogative, the prerogative of foreordination, ...
— Why I Preach the Second Coming • Isaac Massey Haldeman

... foreordination Warwick attached no weight whatever. He had seen God's heel planted for four long years upon the land which had nourished slavery. Had God ordained the crime that the punishment might follow? It would have been easier for Omnipotence to prevent ...
— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt



Words linked to "Foreordination" :   theological doctrine, election, preordination, predetermination, divinity, foreordain, theology, predestination



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