GR translation: there is a new election, a new preterition abroad

[Michael Bailey]

Election and Preterition are Calvinist terms describing who is saved and lost.
In theology this refers to being destined for Heaven or Hell; the
additional precept of Predestination indicates that God determines
(has determined, will determine, does determine) all of this without
reference to any human action...

Although I was brought up Presbyterian, that has never made very much
sense to me - I think maybe he arrived at these precepts by a
dialectic process because he was trying to counter other philosophic
problems...
why do bad things happen to good people, eg

anyway, in theology they are misty and involved concepts much like
epicycles in early astronomy.

But just as Goedel's theorem (as Pynchon elsewhere writes) has a
"brash, proletarian restatement" in Murphy's Law, so the Calvinist
election and preterition terms, instead of referring to post-death
destination, refer instead to predestining of worldly success.

The common element, then, is a binary organizing principle of people's
fates (or in even broader terms, an organizing principle of any kind
of object, such as Maxwell's Demon)

The behavior of the Londoners around the organizing principle of the
Adenoid creates two classes - those he shuns and those he snuffles
up...

Election and Preterition crop up all over the place in GR.