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Predestinarian

noun

Anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny. Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist.

adjective

Of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination.

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"Predestinarian" Quotes from Famous Books

... inflexible law for a personal God with a living will, it is not strange that some phase of the same idea should creep into even the purest theology, and that in Mr. Robertson's theory of prayer we should find traces of the rigidity characterizing 'ultra predestinarian' as well as 'development' schemes ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various

... the Arenes, but it does not look its age. It was in that church that the Council assembled in 475 on the doctrine of Grace, when the Gallican prelates were by no means disposed to admit S. Augustine's predestinarian teaching. Outside the church in the open space are traces of walls that are level with the earth; and if I am not mistaken, they are the foundations of an early basilica, with apse to the west. The church was rebuilt ...

— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould

... Commonitorium, written 434. The chief Augustinians were Hilary and Prosper of Aquitaine. The discussion was not continuous. About 475 it broke out again when Lucidus was condemned at a council at Lyons and forced to retract his predestinarian views; and again about 520. The matter received what is regarded as its solution in the Council of Orange, 529, confirmed by Boniface II in 531. By the decrees of this council so much of the Augustinian system as could be combined with ...

— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.