Word: predestinarian
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Maybe it sounds fatalistic or predestinarian or something to say that politics responds to the times but I think it does...
...church nor neighbor might come between a Baptist and his God. This could lead to a deep personal religion, and it could also produce a welter of small, off-beat sects, e.g., the Duck River, General Six-Principle, Primitive or Hard Shell, and Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists. And all this spiritual nonconformity was often matched by an ironbound, triple-riveted social conformity, designed to keep everything and everybody in its place-especially the Negro...
...Protestantism lost much, too. Christians began thinking of themselves not primarily as Christians but as Augustana Lutherans, or Reformed Presbyterians, or Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists. Denominationalism became demonic. And with so much control in the hands of a material-minded laity, secularism became the weakness of Protestantism as sacerdotalism had been the Achilles' heel of Catholicism...
...same day Robert was "justified," he met himself in a wood. "What was my astonishment! ... I conceived that my guardian angel had appeared." For hours the two rowed their theological pea pods up & down the mainstream of early Calvinist theology-the predestinarian doctrine that man is saved or damned in the mind of God before he is born. Soon they were in a dangerous eddy: that it doesn't really matter what sins a man commits in this life, as long as he is one of God's elect...
That concept included murder "by the commission of heaven," said the "guardian angel," who reluctantly gave his name as Gil-Martin. He indicated a certain anti-predestinarian divine: "If the man Blanchard is worthy, he is only changing his situation for a better one; and, if unworthy, it is better that one fall than that a thousand souls perish." Robert agreed, and did the deed with a little golden pistol his guardian gave...