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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The religious doctrines of John Calvin, emphasizing the omnipotence of God and the salvation of the elect by God's grace alone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin, a French Protestant theologian (1509-64).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
Christian religious tradition based upon thedoctrines and forms of Christian practice of severalProtestant reformers such as John Calvin as opposed toLutherans .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
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Throughout the following period it was, according to the unanimous testimony of history, the system of faith which we call Calvinism that inspired the
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Calvinism is a totally f**ked-up ideology that has poisoned the Evangelical movement in this nation.
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Calvinism is people deluding themselves they can buy their way into the afterlife.
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Radical Protestantism, such as was found in Calvinism generally and particularly among the Puritans, distrusted beauty and removed it from churches and from worship services.
The Truth of Beauty 2009
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Calvinism is people deluding themselves they can buy their way into the afterlife.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Calvinism is at the heart of the current teabagger movement, which has been peddling all the right-wing evangelical social dogma as if it were Holy Writ.
Think Progress » Tea Party Movement As Popular As Socialism 2010
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Calvinism is a sick, twisted virus which has mortally inflicted the ranks of the holy rollers.
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Calvinism is people deluding themselves they can buy their way into the afterlife.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Calvinism is at the heart of the current teabagger movement, which has been peddling all the right-wing evangelical social dogma as if it were Holy Writ.
Think Progress » Tea Party Movement As Popular As Socialism 2010
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Calvinism is people deluding themselves they can buy their way into the afterlife.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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