Definition of "predestinarianism" []

• The belief (or doctrine) that one is powerless to change one's destiny (noun)

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• "Moreover, Valla's insistence on the will as the locus of moral behavior seems compromised by the predestinarianism advocated by the interlocutor “Lorenzo” in his dialogue De libero arbitrio (On Free Will)."
• "I think that Moby-Dick - at least in the person of Ahab - is a great commentary on Calvinist predestinarianism."
• "I think it is interesting that Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett both had religious upbringings rooted in Calvinism (Dawkins some low church evangelicalism and Dennett Congregationalism) and that both have merely switched from a personalist predestinarianism to an impersonalist one."