Vocabulary for the Study of Religion

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Predestination
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Abstract: Doctrines of predestination might appear to be fatalistic or to implicate God in evil. However, predestinarians are not helpless against these charges. Their belief that God is the ultimate …

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Jesse Couenhoven, “Predestination”, in: Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, General Editors Robert A. Segal, Kocku Von Stuckrad. Consulted online on 30 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004249707_vsr_COM_00000419>
First published online: 2016



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