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Reprobation, in Christian theology, is a doctrine which teaches that a person can reject the gospel to a point where God in turn rejects them and curses their conscience. The English word reprobate is from the Latin root probare ( English : prove, test), which gives the Latin participle reprobatus (reproved, condemned), the opposite of ...
The example of William Twisse may be interesting to many given some of his emphases, which may not be as unique to him historically. Regarding his doctrine of salvation, Twisse was explicitly and staunchly supralapsarian, although his views are difficult to fit into the standard definition of supralapsarianism.
Reprobation: from Augustine to the Synod of Dort: The Historical Development of the Reformed Doctrine of Reprobation. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Schaff, Philip (1997). History of the Christian Church. Vol. 3. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems. Schaff, Philip (1997b). History of the Christian Church. Vol. 6.
[44] [45] A common simplified definition of a republic is a government where the head of state is not a monarch. [46] [47] Montesquieu included both democracies, where all the people have a share in rule, and aristocracies or oligarchies, where only some of the people rule, as republican forms of government. [48] These categories are not exclusive.
The Accardi doctrine was later strengthened in Service v. Dulles 354 US 363 (1957) [4] and Vitarelli v. Seaton, 359 US 535 (1959) [5] Due to a ruling in United States v. Fausto, [6] the doctrine generally does not apply to Federal employment decisions that are covered by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.
Federalist No. 47 is the forty-seventh paper from The Federalist Papers.It was first published by The New York Packet on January 30, 1788, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist Papers were published, but its actual author was James Madison.
Many people, Fosdick argued, simply found it impossible to accept the virgin birth of Christ, the doctrine of substitutionary atonement, or the literal Second Coming of Christ in the light of modern science. Given the different points of view within the church, only tolerance and liberty could allow for these different perspectives to co-exist ...
Conciliarism was a movement in the 14th-, 15th- and 16th-century Catholic Church which held that supreme authority in the Church resided with an ecumenical council, apart from, or even against, the pope.