double predestination

American  

noun

Theology.

1. the doctrine that God has foreordained both those who will be saved and those who will be damned.

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Example Sentences

Such theological reasoning is serious, stalwart and chilly, not unrelated to the cold logic of double predestination and the denial of free will.

From The Wall Street Journal

Before 840, deserting his monastery, he went to Italy, preached there his doctrine of double predestination, and entered into relations with Notting, bishop of Verona, and Eberhard, count of Friuli.

From Project Gutenberg

This point has a bearing in connection with the controversy on predestination in the ninth century, in which Gottschalk reasserted the theory of a double predestination.

From Project Gutenberg