This tradition of polemic achieved classic formulation in Bossuet's 1688 The History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches. (firstthings.com)
This was the sort of conceit that Robert Rosenblum drew on, in a now classic formulation from 1961, when he described paintings by Rothko, as well as Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Clyfford Still, as having descended from the eighteenth - century romantic concept of the Sublime (as it was discussed by Burke and Kant among others), a quasi-religious state of awe induced by the experience of nature on a vast scale.... (thecityreview.com)
It finds its most classic formulation in the theology of Blessed John Duns Scotus, who argues: «I declare however that the fall was not the cause of Christ's predestination. (faith.org.uk)