Sentences with phrase «affirm predestination»

Not exact matches

Take the issue of predestination, well the Pharisees and Saduccess were divided on this subject but the Essenes affirmed it (not in a proto - Calvinist way but there's similarity).

Even Luther, who in his theology of the cross affirmed the suffering of God even unto death, seemed to take back much of what he said in his equally foundational doctrines of predestination and the Deus Absconditus.

It is difficult (at least as Arminius saw it) to square these key tenets of his thought — that providence is subordinate to creation and that God creates to spread and share his goodness — with traditional Reformed theology and the notions of election and predestination affirmed by the Reformed.