“This strong sense of predestination is a characteristic element in Greene's work and explains much of its antinomian flavor.”

“In the 1860s a controversy over predestination among Midwestern Lutherans caused further splits that lasted well into the twentieth century.”

“This has significant implications for some theological concepts, particularly predestination and free will, which is where I began.”

“Although Bradwardine was not the object of FitzRalph's attack, it seems to be written in response to disciples of Bradwardine who had espoused an extreme form of predestinarianism from a reading of the De Causa Dei.”

“Nevertheless, as Rempel shows, Marpeck has a distinct, non-Lutheran soteriology marked by an insistent attack on the predestinarianism of classical Protestantism.”

“Predestinarianism reduces eternal salvation or damnation to the sovereign will of God alone, and excludes free will as a secondary factor in determining man's future state.”

“What happens to us, and what we make happen to us, are tangled like predestiny and free will.”

“The only ways to overcome this curse of predestiny are clever writing and serious, believable realism.”

“Don't bedazzle me with manifest theory or predestiny doubletalk.”