How could God know in advance that, under given conditions, a particular person will perform a certain act without undermining that person's free will in favor of a determinism of divine
preordination? This is a traditional problem and Schmaltz sets the stage for Descartes by recounting two conflicting attempts to solve it by the Jesuit Molina, and the Dominican Banez.
This report proposed a formational journey from
preordination learning through initial ministerial education to continuing ministerial education within an understanding that the whole church and all who compose it are learning.
(6) In an influential article on pretenders, Uspensldi interpreted the "royal marks" which they displayed as evidence of widespread Russian ideas concerning the divine
preordination or predestination of the "true tsar"--a figure who need not necessarily be the reigning monarch.
(91.) "Preadaptation" is a rather unfortunate selection of jargon because it can suggest "
preordination" of a future evolutionary path.
A Welsh speaker and native of Pontypridd, he graduated in Classics and in Theology at King's College, London, and completed his
preordination training at St Michael's College, Llandaff.
Petitjean similarly writes, "Despite her use of the supernatural and
preordination to soften the basis for the mixed marriage of a strong female character to a member of another race and religion, Child anticipates feminism and the multicultural notion of society that America would slowly, but eventually, begin to accept" (146).
In The Mechanical Lions' legend is conceived as a tool of the implied prosecutor, who opposes the arguments of the protagonist,' free will to those of
preordination In Dogs and Books' and 'A Tomb for Boris Davidovich' legend changes its role and the myth of cyclical time is invoked as an explanatory tool, connecting diverse historical persecutions into a single, determinist vision of history However, the narrator subverts this pessimistic myth as make-believe, a mere consequence of the transformative device which is used to enhance it.
In search of answers, Tolstoy simultaneously conducts a lengthy investigation of historiography and political history before culminating in an attempt to resolve man's free will with divine
preordination. Not surprisingly, and despite his attempts, he eventually throws up his hands at the most demanding question: "Why does a war ...
The befalling or occurrence of anything without
preordination; chance, fortuitousness.
