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Calvin’s Doctrine of Predestination is unavailable, but you can change that!

The doctrine of predestination aroused opposition in Calvin’s own day, and it remains—nearly 500 years later—one of Calvin’s most contentious and most-debated doctrines. In this concise volume, Fred Klooster offers an excellent summary to this difficult doctrine. He analyzes, in particular, Calvin’s doctrine of double predestination. This volume concludes with a detailed bibliography.

have any reason for rejecting others, other than his will. For when it is said that God hardens or shows mercy to whom he wills, men are warned by this to seek no cause outside his will.”31 Calvin also expressed it this way: “… those whom God passes over (praeterit), he condemns (reprobat); and this he does for no other reason than that he wills to exclude them from the inheritance which he predestines (praedestinat) for his own children.”32 What is the cause of God’s decree of reprobation? Calvin’s
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