predestinarian
/prɪˌdɛstɪˈnɛːrɪən
/noun
A person who believes in the doctrine of predestination.There were predestinarians who believed in transmigration but who felt that every sentient being must pass through every possible fate before release was possible....
- No longer can historians dismiss this group as an insignificant fringe given the evidence of their congregational strength as well as their rhetorical conflicts with such notable predestinarians as Bradford and Jewel.
- But even as staunch a predestinarian as Jonathan Edwards had to allow for more moral choice.
adjective
Upholding, affirming, or relating to the doctrine of predestination: predestinarian theology...
- Through the first Puritan settlers, the predestinarian theology of Augustine and Calvin was injected into the mainstream of American theology and intellectual life.
- Puritanism entails hostility to the traditional culture as well as enthusiasm for sermons and predestinarian theology.
- Also, as MacCulloch points out, later rigidities in predestinarian debates do not yet apply. Yet Cranmer would say that God singles out the Elect for salvation from eternal damnation, which is the fate of those not among the Elect.
