Sentence examples for predestinarian from inspiring English sources

Yet, as a teenager, she rebelled with others of her generation against the stark predestinarian Calvinism of what she called her father's "relentless theology".

Emerson won his high place in American esteem as the founder and proponent of a religion, one of many offshoots and modifications of Christianity — Mormonism, Shakerism, the Millerites — that flourished in the first half of the nineteenth century as Calvinism, with its baleful predestinarian God, lost its hold.

The expedition, recounted in White's demanding but succulent prose, is brilliantly conveyed, a ripping tale as written by a predestinarian deity.

Yet, as a teenager, she rebelled with others of her generation against the stark predestinarian Calvinism of what she called her father's "relentless theology". But whereas most Protestants who rejected Calvinism gravitated toward belief in a benign God, Eddy needed something more.