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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to monergism; of the nature of monergism.

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Examples

  • As such he regarded Luther's monergistic doctrine, according to which it is God alone who justifies, converts, preserves, and saves men, without any works of their own.

    Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

  • And in the course of time his theology drifted farther and farther from its original monergistic moorings.

    Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

  • For those of us who are persuaded didn't we all come to embrace monergistic regeneration because it best expresses the Biblical data regarding the extent of Christ's work in our salvation?

    Reformation Theology John 2010

  • Thus 'Christ alone' as it was understood in the Reformation, is a monergistic distinctive.

    Reformation Theology John 2010

  • "And in fact this becomes a nasty question for calvinists like Hays: if salvation is monergistic as you believe and involves God overpowering the will of the sinner and saving him, thus involving a mere exercise of God's omnipotence, then God could easily save all people, so why doesn't he?"

    Triablogue 2009

  • He defends the monergistic aspect of regeneration showing it to be a work of God alone, one that is independent of human choice or agency.

    Challies Dot Com 2009

  • One could say that technically only regeneration is monergistic.

    Reformation Theology 2009

  • We are told that "the main reason Arminians reject the Calvinistic notion of monergistic salvation … is that it violated the character of God and the nature of personal relationship" (38).

    Triablogue 2009

  • So is perseverance in the faith still monergistic in some mysterious way, or do you admit that, at least at this point, it's up to you?

    The Boar's Head Tavern 2009

  • The notion of foresight has distinctly less of the active and distinctly more of the passive than the divinely monergistic emphasis of the whole passage appears to require.

    Possessing the Treasure 2008

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