John Calvin, among other theologians of the 16th century, comfortable with the definition of God as being omniscient in the total sense, in order for worthy beings ' abilities to choose freely, embraced the doctrine of predestination.

Mullins was best known for his worship songs " Awesome God " and " Sometimes by Step ", both of which have been embraced as modern classics by many Christians.

Secondly, the populist, mystical Jewish revival of Hasidism, that began in 18th century Ukraine, and later spread across other areas, celebrated sincerity above learning as a path to God, and embraced the common folk.

He felt that the world was not a contradiction to the word of God, and it was to be embraced rather than shunned.

Commonly called Erasmus, he embraced ecclesiastical structure yet challenged the Augustinian view ( people do not choose God, but God is the only one who brings people into grace and salvation ), the nature of the human will, and the corruption and problems of the late medieval church.

In this view, Jesus was an apocalyptic preacher who would bring about the end times and when he did not see the end of the cosmic order coming Jesus embraced death as a tool in which to provoke God into action.

Sheikh Muhammad was a Sufi saint who embraced the Hindu God Rama as his chosen bhakti ideal.

He embraced panentheism with God encompassing all occasions of experience, transcending them.

Accordingly, colonial American Freemasons are portrayed as having embraced Bavarian Illuminism and used the power of the occult to bind their planning of a government in conformity with the plan of the " Masonic God " because of their belief that the " Great Architect of the Universe " has tasked the United States with the eventual establishment of the " Kingdom of God on Earth " — a Masonic world government with New Jerusalem as its capital city and the Third Temple as its holiest site — the initially utopian New World Order presided over by a Masonic Messiah.

It is entering the ' Cloud of Unknowing ', which is beyond rational understanding, and can be embraced only in love of God ( Agape or Awe ).

Those considered practical atheists were said to behave as though God, ethics, and social responsibility did not exist ; they abandoned duty and embraced hedonism.

Like Ramanuja, Madhvacharya also embraced Vaishnava theology which understood God as being personal and endowed with attributes.

The quip was made by critics and then later embraced by the Boston community that " Unitarian preaching is limited to fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man and the neighborhood of Boston.

As one of the styles of landscape painting to emerge in the nineteenth century, luminism embraced the contemporary preoccupation with nature as a manifestation of God ’ s grand plan.

He was deeply moved by the Quranic verses and the words of the Prophet and embraced Islam by submission of his will to God.

While still in bed my thoughts turn towards you my Immortal Beloved, now and then happy, then sad again, waiting whether fate might answer us-I can only live either wholly with you or not at all, yes I have resolved to stray about in the distance, until I can fly into your arms, and send my soul embraced by you into the realm of the Spirits-yes unfortunately it must be-you will compose yourself all the more since you know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never – never – O God why do I have to separate from someone whom I love so much, and yet my life in V as it is now is a miserable life-Your love makes me at once most happy and most unhappy-at my age I would now need some conformity regularity of my life – can this exist in our relationship?

Since the A.L.A.M. holdings embraced only about twenty-five per cent of motor vehicle patents, the denial of rights to independent companies did not retard technical progress in unlicensed sectors of the industry.

" He did not advocate a community of goods or assert collective ownership as is embraced in communism, but his belief that individuals ought to share with those in need was influential on the later development of anarchist communism.

He embraced Marxism ( but did not join the Communist Party ) and took a prominent role in the struggle against French rule in Algeria.

However, Money's meaning of the word did not become widespread until the 1970s, when feminist theory embraced the distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender.

Abu Sufyan and his wife Hind embraced Islam on the eve of the conquest of Mecca, as did their son ( the future caliph Muawiyah I ).

Clotilde was brought up in the Catholic faith and did not rest until her husband had abjured Arianism and embraced the Catholic faith.

While most of the bands embraced the straight edge lifestyle, some prominent ones from this era did not, such as Biohazard, Madball and Sick of It All.

The film did attract criticism for being almost completely silent, despite the movie industry having long since embraced the talking picture.

Jor-El was not only determined that his son would survive the death of his birthworld, but that he would grow up on a world that vibrantly embraced living, as his pre-Clone Wars forbears once did.

In his essays in social history, written during the 1950s and ' 60s, Trevor-Roper was increasingly influenced by — though he never formally embraced the work of — the French Annales School, especially Fernand Braudel, and did much to introduce the work of the Annales school to the English-speaking world.

The PC clone market did not want to pay royalties to IBM in order to use this new technology, and for desktop machines vendors of PC-compatibles stayed largely with the 16-bit AT bus, ( embraced and renamed as ISA to avoid IBM's " AT " trademark ) and manual configuration, although the VESA Local Bus was briefly popular for Intel ' 486 machines.

As a conservative who was strong in his opposition to communism and the Left in general, Svinhufvud did not become a President embraced by all the people, although as the amiable Ukko-Pekka ( Old Man Pete ), he did enjoy wide popularity.

Although the Polish Brethren never adopted the name " Unitarian " while in Poland, when they were disbanded in 1658, those who fled to Holland eventually embraced the term " Unitarian " ( which they got from the Transylvanians ), as they did not prefer to be called " Socinians.

While this broad conception of " Turkishness ", of pan-Turkism, often embraced what Gökalp perceived to be ethnic commonality, he did not disparage other races, as some of his pan-Turkist successors later did.

Ed Boyce of the Western Federation of Miners also embraced industrial unionism, believing, as did Debs, that it had more potential than craft unionism.

Before Kurtz embraced the term " secular humanism ," which had received wide publicity through fundamentalist Christians in the 1980s, humanism was more widely perceived as a religion ( or a pseudoreligion ) that did not include the supernatural.

The colonists who embraced the law of grace did not call themselves Antinomians, since to them the term implied licentious behavior and religious heterodoxy, and the term was used, instead by their opponents to discredit them.

While John Coltrane usually receives the most credit for bringing the soprano saxophone out of obsolescence in the early 1960s, Thompson, along with Steve Lacy, embraced the instrument earlier than did Coltrane.

Apollonia and a whole group of early martyrs did not await the death they were threatened with, but either to preserve their chastity or because they were confronted with the alternative of renouncing their faith or suffering death, voluntarily embraced the death prepared for them, an action that runs perilously close to suicide, some thought.

Like most German military, he did not then count on an overall war, but he very soon embraced the idea and belonged to those pushing Kaiser Wilhelm II to declare war.

Angola-Portugal relations have significantly improved since the Angolan government abandoned communism and nominally embraced democracy in 1991, embracing a pro-U. S. and to a lesser degree pro-Europe foreign policy.

However, it is the Jewish artists, Gustav Mahler and Franz Kafka in music and literature that have embraced the theme of angst so highly in their work that they have become synonymous with the term to the point of popular joking and cartoons today.

All pop music is love and theft, and in 40 years of records whose sources have inspired volumes of scholastic exegesis, Dylan has never embraced that truth so warmly.

Many of the Celtic languages have experienced resurgences in modern years, spurred on partly by the action of artists and musicians who have embraced them as hallmarks of identity and distinctness.

Some traditionalists have embraced the labels " reactionary " and " counterrevolutionary ", defying the stigma that has attached to these terms since the Enlightenment.

However, with later successes by Chievo and contemporaneous Serie B and Serie C1 struggles for Hellas Verona, Chievo fans have now largely embraced the nickname as a badge of honour.

With Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North in 1922, documentary film embraced romanticism ; Flaherty filmed a number of heavily staged romantic films during this time period, often showing how his subjects would have lived 100 years earlier and not how they lived right then.

A third set, the Libri Rituales, might have provided a key to Etruscan civilization: its wider scope embraced Etruscan standards of social and political life as well as ritual practices.

Like many members of older established aristocratic families in England, Oxford flirted with Catholicism ; after his return from Italy he was reported to have embraced the religion.

Whilst a few social scientists who draw inspiration from ' organic ' views of society have embraced Gaia philosophy as a way to explain the human-nature interconnections, most professional social scientists are more involved in reflecting upon the way Gaia philosophy is used and engaged with within sub-sections of society.

Democritus seems to be the earliest philosopher on record to have categorically embraced a hedonistic philosophy ; he called the supreme goal of life " contentment " or " cheerfulness ", claiming that " joy and sorrow are the distinguishing mark of things beneficial and harmful " ( DK 68 B 188 ).

While post-structural historicism is relativist in its orientation, that is, it sees each culture as its own frame of reference, a large number of thinkers have embraced the need for historical context, not because culture is self-referential, but because there is no more compressed means of conveying all of the relevant information except through history.

Ironically, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and in Europe has not embraced his vision of armed jihad, something for which they have been denounced by more radical Islamists.

The term has been embraced by most adherents of Mormonism, most notably Mormon fundamentalists, while other Latter Day Saint denominations, such as the Community of Christ, have rejected it.

Since then, many artists have embraced minimal or postminimal styles and the label " postmodern " has been attached to them.

They typically involve plans to construct artificial islands ( few of which are ever realised ), and a large percentage have embraced or purported to embrace libertarian or democratic principles.

His advisers, however, told him that he could not disinherit only one of his sisters, but that he would have to disinherit Elizabeth as well, even though she embraced the Church of England.

Notably, they have not embraced web comics.

I embraced OS X as soon as it was available and have never looked back.

Some educational institutions have embraced M-Learning, integrating PDAs into their teaching practices.

Since the 1960s, Pentecostalism has increasingly gained acceptance from other Christian traditions, and Pentecostal beliefs concerning Spirit baptism and spiritual gifts have been embraced by non-Pentecostal Christians in Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox churches through the Charismatic Movement.

Other philosophers who embraced panentheism have included Thomas Hill Green ( 1839 – 1882 ), James Ward ( 1843 – 1925 ), Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison ( 1856 – 1931 ) and Samuel Alexander ( 1859 – 1938 ).