The majority Arminian view is that election is individual and based on God's foreknowledge of faith, but a second perspective deserves mention.

Although Wesley and the majority of his followers were decidedly Arminian in their theological outlook, George Whitefield, Howell Harris, and Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon were notable for being Calvinistic Methodists, and the Presbyterian Church of Wales originated from the preaching of Harris and Whitfield.

The occasion was the development within the congregation of an Arminian majority that held to the six principles of Hebrew 6: 1-2-repentance from dead works, faith toward God, the doctrine of baptisms, the laying-on-of-hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

The majority of the Concord association held the more moderate Arminian position and the Calvinistic minority withdrew in 1827, creating two Concord associations.

, the majority of Methodists remain committed to Arminian theology, and Arminianism itself has become one of the dominant theological systems in the United States, thanks in large part to the influence of John and Charles Wesley.

Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

If this attitude is seriously questioned in the Soviet Union, it does not necessarily follow that the majority of the society in which I live is too aware of the necessity for clarity on this ethical as well as aesthetic point of view.

Binoculars, for instance, although generally of lower power than the majority of telescopes, also tend to provide a wider field of view, which is preferable for looking at some objects in the night sky.

Athanasius ' return was welcomed by the majority of the people of Egypt who had come to view him as a national hero.

The majority view appears to be that people such as King Hroðgar and the Scyldings in Beowulf are based on real historical people from 6th-century Scandinavia.

The classic view of water in cells is that about 5 % of this water is strongly bound in by solutes or macromolecules as water of solvation, while the majority has the same structure as pure water.

* The state of the dead: The majority of standard scholarly Jewish and Christian sources today describe the state of the dead in terms identical or very close to the Christadelphian view.

However, the majority of modern scholars view them as Jewish Christians, who taught that in order for pagans to belong to the people of God, they must be subject to some or all of the Jewish Law, ( i. e. Judaizers ).

Despite the majority opinion that Luke was a gentile writing to other gentiles, a few authors have challenged this view.

According to the majority view, the evidence against Luke's being the author is strong enough that the author is unknown.

Those who consider performance as an integral part of faith such as, consider anyone who does a grave sin to be out of faith, while the majority of Sunnis who view works as merely the perfecting the faith, hold that a believing sinner will be punished with a temporary stay in hell.

Koester articulates a majority view among scholars that Justin considered the " memoirs of the apostles " to be accurate historical records but not inspired writings, whereas scholar Charles E. Hill, though acknowledging the position of mainstream scholarship, contends that Justin regarded the fulfillment quotations of the gospels to be equal in authority.

The view that public education contributes to rising literacy levels is shared by the majority of historians.

997 ), first wife of Duke Mihály of Gran ( Esztergom ) and then wife of her brother-in-law Géza, Grand Prince of the Magyars, was Mieszko's daughter ( born from a chronological point of view from one of the pagan wives ) and not his sister as is given in the majority of web sources.

The majority view is that all of the books that would eventually form the New Testament were written in Koine Greek.

Heathens believe in multiple polytheistic deities, all adopted from historical Germanic mythologies ; the majority of Heathens are " polytheistic realists ", believing that the deities are real entities, whilst others view them as Jungian archetypes.

Still, partial preterism is not the majority view among American denominations founded after the 16th century and meets with significant vocal opposition, especially by those denominations which espouse Dispensationalism.

Instead, the prime minister is appointed by the president, who in his / her view is likely to command the confidence of the majority of the parliament.

Edwards ( 2000 ) contradicts the conventional view that in the wake of the Scopes trial a humiliated fundamentalism retreated into the political and cultural background, a viewpoint evidenced in the movie Inherit the Wind and the majority of contemporary historical accounts.

Tertullian seems to suggest that the majority of believers at that time favoured the Sabellian view of the oneness of God.

The notion of a static unchanging Form and its identity with Substance represents the metaphysical view that has come to be held as an assumption by the vast majority of the Western philosophical tradition since Plato and Aristotle, as it was something they agreed on.

According to this view, taxation in modern nation-states benefit the majority of the population and social development.

The principle now became established that the king accepts as prime minister the person who wins a majority in the House of Commons, whether the king personally favors him or not.

The President normally accepts this recommendation unless otherwise convinced that the Lok Sabha might recommend a new Prime Minister by a majority vote.

The majority new consensus view, found in most current text-books and taught in all universities, is New Keynesian economics, which accepts the neoclassical concept of long-run equilibrium but allows a role for aggregate demand in the short run.

Today, majority opinion accepts the authenticity of the text, based on the similarity of its language with that of other texts discovered after the Tale.

During the Weimar Republic ( 1918 – 33 ), the political philosopher Carl Schmitt ( 1888 – 1985 ), whose legal work as the “ Crown Jurist of the Third Reich ” promoted fascism and deconstructed liberal democracy, addressed the matter in Legalität und Legitimität ( Legality and Legitimacy, 1932 ) an anti-democratic polemic treatise that asked: How can parliamentary government make for law and legality, when a 49 per cent minority accepts as politically legitimate the political will of a 51 per cent majority?

The majority of Gaia Cash sales are from La Victoire, an NPC-run store that only accepts Gaia Cash.

If the candidate accepts, the candidates name is presented to the World Conference and the call is sustained by majority vote.

According to Alan Ryan, the ideology of the original classical liberals argued against direct democracy, where law is made by majority vote by citizens, " for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain rule of law.

In classical training, the majority of the instruction for the right hand focuses on the production of bowing tone ; little time is spent studying the varieties of pizzicato tone.

Conservative programs are often based on classical education, which is seen by conservatives to reliably teach valuable skills in a developmentally appropriate order to the majority of Myers-Briggs temperaments, by teaching facts.

In the process, many fragments of classical learning are preserved which otherwise would have been hopelessly lost ; " in fact, in the majority of his works, including the Origines, he contributes little more than the mortar which connects excerpts from other authors, as if he was aware of his deficiencies and had more confidence in the stilus maiorum than his own " his translator Katherine Nell MacFarlane remarks ; on the other hand, some of these fragments were lost in the first place because Isidore ’ s work was so highly regarded — Braulio called it quecunque fere sciri debentur, " practically everything that it is necessary to know "— that it superseded the use of many individual works of the classics themselves, which were not recopied and have therefore been lost: " all secular knowledge that was of use to the Christian scholar had been winnowed out and contained in one handy volume ; the scholar need search no further ".

" The prominent British-American orientalist Bernard Lewis argues that in the hadiths and the classical manuals of Islamic law jihad has a military meaning in the large majority of cases.

Middle East historian Bernard Lewis argues that " the overwhelming majority of classical theologians, jurists, and traditionalists ( specialists in the hadith ) understood the obligation of jihad in a military sense.

* While the seemingly " exotic " behavior of matter posited by quantum mechanics and relativity theory become more apparent when dealing with particles of extremely small size or velocities approaching the speed of light, the laws of classical Newtonian physics remain accurate in predicting the behavior of the vast majority of " large " objects ( on the order of the size of large molecules or bigger ) at velocities much smaller than the velocity of light.

Although most performers of classical and traditional instruments receive some instruction in music, art pop, or rock and roll history from teachers throughout their training, the majority of formal music history courses are offered at the college level.

The vast majority of classical guitarists now play with a combination of the fingernails and fingertips.

While classical, gospel, and contemporary popular music comprise the majority of the choir ’ s repertoire, the choir is noted for its emphasis on preserving the heritage of the spiritual, especially in the historic practices of performance.

The majority of scores are orchestral works rooted in Western classical music, but a great number of scores also draw influence from jazz, rock, pop, blues, New Age ambient music, and a wide range of ethnic and world music styles.

Timarli Sipahis of classical Ottoman period usually comprised the majority of the army and did the majority of the fighting on the battlefield.

The majority of this was Imagine, presented by Alan Yentob, and classical music concerts such as the BBC Proms.

However, the majority of classical rabbis believed that the biblical phrase hallow the fiftieth year, together with the biblical promise that there would be three years worth of fruit in the sixth year, implies that the jubilee year was the 50th year.

The majority view of classical rabbis was that the commandments will still be applicable and in force during the Messianic Age.

By 1959, the majority of American record labels from majors such as Columbia, RCA, Warner Brothers and United Artists to " budget " labels such as Kapp, Crown, Dot, and Roulette had released at least one exotica-themed album, usually utilizing composers and musicians that produced jazz, classical or easy-listening recordings.

His work examined warfare throughout history, including human prehistory and the classical era ; however the majority of his work concentrated on the 14th Century onwards to modern conflict of the 20th and 21st Centuries.

Saint-Just dismissed all complex systems of voting and eligibility and supported only the classical style of a simple majority of citizens in a nationwide vote.

* That any interpretation of the Quran from a historical, contextual perspective is a corruption, and that the majority of Islamic history and the classical jurisprudential tradition is mere sophistry.

Many of these classical physicists resented Einstein's dismissal of the notion of a luminiferous aether, which had been a mainstay of their work for the majority of their productive lives.

During his Spanish period, he wrote the majority of his eight-syllable poems ; during his Italian or Petrarchan period, he wrote mostly sonnets and songs ; and during his Neapolitan or classicist period, he wrote his other more classical poems, including his elegies, letters, eclogues and odes.

Numerous NPR member stations have since followed WBUR's lead and eliminated music programming in favor of news and information programming ( including rival WGBH, which dropped classical music following its 2009 acquisition of WCRB, though it still programs jazz at night ); indeed by 2009, the majority of NPR member stations were programming 24 / 7 news and information formats.