In the predestinarian controversy he published the work Contra J.
On the side of Gottschalk in the predestinariancontroversy he wrote his treatise De tribus quæstionibus.
For the present it is sufficient to note the fact that the eschatologico- predestinarian view brings a mysterious element of dogma not merely into the teaching, but also into the public ministry of Jesus.
The ethical idea of salvation and thepredestinarian limitation of acceptance to the elect are constantly in conflict in the mind of Jesus.
It may seem to us inconceivable, but they are really predestinarianin form.
And with this the predestinarian thought of election was in complete accord.
The predestinarian view goes along with the eschatology.
But the final consideration which puts a great gulf between the determinist and the predestinarian is this, that the latter asserts the reality of the vulgar notion of moral desert.
The predestinarian is obliged by his theology to admit the existence of a free will in God, and, as a matter of fact, he does admit it in the devil.
General Vossius, in his Historia Pelagiana, the first edition of which, in 1618, was considerably enlarged afterwards, admitted that the first four centuries did not countenance the predestinarian scheme of Augustin.
Fairchild tells us that "this distinction between a decree to effect and a decree to permit has been adopted by Predestinarian divines in all ages.
Yes, in all ages Predestinarian divines have been compelled to abandon and contradict their creed in the progress, and for the purpose, of its defence.
This is the point which cannot be evaded; and it is fatal to the predestinarian theology.
That the predestinarian theology, which denies the freedom of the will, is supported by names of great consideration, is cheerfully granted.
The enigmas of predestination were in his case in the last instance inextricably bound up with deterministic ideas--a fact not unimportant for the fate of his predestinarian ideas, for instance, in the hands of Melanchthon.
A Dialogue between a Predestinarian and his Friend.
And again, though no Calvinism can be found in any of the sermons which Whitefield as yet had published, it is evident, from the subjoined epistle, that already he was inclined to the predestinarian creed.
He uses his wife worse than a Turk (his predestinarian brother), and tells her, if he killed her he could not be damned.
It is admitted on all hands that the Greek fathers did not inculcate the predestinarian system.
Those who did not hold the predestinarian theory were branded with reproach by the names of free-willers and Pelagians.
To refute the predestinarian heresy Hincmar composed his De praedestinatione Dei et libero arbitrio, and against certain propositions advanced by Gottschalk on the Trinity he wrote a treatise called De una et non trina deitate.
His first encounter was with the heresiarch Gottschalk, whose predestinarian doctrines claimed to be modelled on those of St Augustine.
He remained an outspoken predestinarian of the most violent type.
As he said this, he held out his hand towards his polluted brother; but the froward predestinarian took not his from his breeches pocket, but lifting his foot, he gave his brother's hand a kick.
A similarpredestinarian exaggeration is seen in the =Hard-shell Baptists=, who denounce all home and foreign missions as running counter to the Divine sovereignty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "predestinarian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
