predestination

Examples of predestination in the following topics:

• Religion in Early New England

  • He emphasized predestination, a lack of free will, and the belief that humans were depraved and needed a strong religious government to control their animal instincts.
  • Puritans also believed in predestination and election by God of who is saved.
  • In Massachusetts Bay, the church members controlled the civil government, and church membership was limited to those who were predestined to go to Heaven.
  • As church membership dropped in the late 17th century, the Puritan leaders created the Halfway Covenant—any adult person who had at least one parent as a church member could join the Puritan church without having to "prove" that they were predestined to enter Heaven.

• Calvinism

  • Calvinism is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and is characterized by the doctrine of predestination in the salvation of souls.
  • While the Reformed theological tradition addresses all of the traditional topics of Christian theology, the word Calvinism is sometimes used to refer to particular Calvinist views on soteriology (the saving of the soul from sin and death) and predestination, which are summarized in part by the Five Points of Calvinism.
  • An important tenet of Calvinism, which differs from Lutheranism, is that God only saves the "elect," a predestined group of individuals, and that these elect are essentially guaranteed salvation, but everyone else is damned.

• Protestant Work Ethic and Weber

  • The Calvinist notion of predestination also meant that material wealth could be taken as a sign of salvation in the afterlife.
  • Predestination is the belief that God has chosen who will be saved and who will not.

• Erasmus

  • He also held to the Catholic doctrine of free will, which some Reformers rejected in favor of the doctrine of predestination.

• Pennsylvania and Delaware

  • George Fox had founded the Society of Friends (commonly known as Quakers) in England in the late 1640s, having grown dissatisfied with Puritanism and the idea of predestination.

• Evolution of Protestantism

  • Whereas Martin Luther and John Calvin had preached a doctrine of predestination and close reading of scripture, new evangelical ministers spread a message of personal and experiential faith that rose above mere book learning.