单词 | post-destination |
释义 | > as lemmaspost-destination post-destination n. Brit. /ˌpəʊs(t)dɛstᵻˈneɪʃn/ , U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˌdɛstəˈneɪʃən/ ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > doctrine of salvation > [noun] > post-destination post-destination1628 1628 W. Davenant Let. 4 Nov. in Tanner MS in P. G. Lake Calvinism & Eng. Church in Past & Present (1987) Feb. 64 No bishop would undertake the approving either of that conditional post-destination which the Bishop of Chichester seems to strive for or of that total falling away from grace upon the commission of every mortal sin. 1674 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis (ed. 2) 160 The Doctor's Election is a Postdestination; for it then only makes men ordained to eternal life, when..they are possessed of it. 1700 C. Ness Antidote against Arminianism 41 To prefer Time before Eternity, and to set up a Post-destination instead of a Prædestination. 1971 Russ. Rev. 30 334 This is especially true in what Western man calls the godless society of the Soviet Union, a society which appears to have embraced the postdestination concept that man has a significant destiny away from his home planet. < as lemmas |
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