词汇 | predestination |
释义 | predestination noun[ U ] uk /ˌpriː.des.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌpriː.des.təˈneɪ.ʃən/ the belief that people have no control over events because these things are controlled by God or by fate宿命论;天意,命运,注定 Fate and destiny align break Damocles destined destiny fatalism fate fated ill-fated ill-starred in the lap of the godsidiom lap lightning luckless predestined preordain providence providential sword of Damoclesidiom written in the starsidiom predestination | American Dictionarypredestination noun[ U ] us/priˌdes·təˈneɪ·ʃən/ the belief that events in life are decided in advance by God or by fate and cannot be changed Examples of predestinationpredestination Whatever their differences over predestination they employed the same arguments to support toleration, arguments turning on biblical hermeneutics. This is usually expressed in the doctrines of divine sovereignty, providence and predestination. Many pursued their tasks, in science as well, without bothering much with the limits or non-limits of predestination and free will. Without this step, there remains an element of teleology, or predestination, in the way that chemistry ' discovers ' life with unusual efficiency. A great deal is made of whether predestination is to be understood as part of divine providence, or as part of salvation. The divine predestination of some to salvation would appear to entail the divine reprobation of the rest. But at the centre of the case against him were a series of articles relating to the doctrine of predestination. In essence, the absorption of the kinetic energy of a falling body through the power dissipation is the predestination of the electrorheological shock absorber. I have in mind here stringent versions of reformed thought that emphasize a form of providence that entails strict predestination. This theory is, in principle, neutral on all questions of predestination (for example, before or after foreseen good actions, and so on). Chapter 8 is devoted to predestination, merit, and grace. Yet a parallel crackdown appears to have occurred with respect to the doctrine of predestination. Vermigli's views took the very distinctive form of double predestination (5-6) but the evidence does not unambiguously point in this direction. The areas of comparison are primarily the sacraments, predestination and justification, although it is questionable whether these topics go to the core of the theological differences between the two men. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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