On Preterition

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Andrew comments:
"The randomness theme is                   
important but remember that election and preterition are also
arbitrary - no notion of Karma in Calvinism."


True enough, strictly speaking, but different places and generations twisted
the theology in various directions, so that there is at least one strain of
Calvinism--and a fairly influential one at that-- that stipulates that
prosperity can be an overt sign of God's grace and the gracee's election.

Hawthorne plays around with these doctrinal differences in THE SCARLET LETTER.


Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)