The doctrine of predestination " does not stand at the beginning of the dogmatic system as it does in Zwingli or Beza ", but, according to Fahlbusch, it " does tend to burst through the soteriological-Christological framework . " In contrast to some other Protestant Reformers, Calvin taught double predestination.
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Thus, it may be more accurate to describe his viewpoint as a melding of Lutheran and Reformed perspectives of soteriology; the Lutheran accent in particular was dominant in Brunner's affirmation of single predestination over against both the double predestination of Calvin and the liberal insistence on universal salvation, a view he charged Barth with holding.
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Peter Martyr Vermigli, the most highly trained Reformed theologian of this era, taught a strong doctrine of double predestination, which teaches that God has chosen to save people for salvation and others for damnation, and held that Christ was really, though spiritually, present in the Eucharist, a position that Calvin would also take.
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The version of predestination espoused by John Calvin, after whom Calvinism is named, is sometimes referred to as " double predestination " because in it God predestines some people for salvation ( i . e . unconditional election ) and some for condemnation ( i . e . Reprobation ) which results by allowing the individual's own sins to condemn them.
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Among modern inheritors of this tradition, Mark R . Talbot ascribes evil to God : God s foreordination is the ultimate reason why everything comes about, including the existence of all evil persons and things and the occurrence of any evil acts or events . Such models of God's complete foreordination and direct willing of everything that happens lead to the doctrines of double predestination and limited atonement.
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As Daniel Migliore in his Faith Seeking Understanding, ( 87, Eerdmans, 2004 ) said Few doctrines in the history of Christian theology have been as misunderstood and distorted, and few have caused as much controversy and distress, as the doctrine of the eternal decrees of God, or double predestination . The works of Pierre Maury are outstanding examples of original, biblically-grounded exposition in the Reformed theological tradition, in which he always sought to be faithful to Calvin but is not bound by him.
