Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Predicament (Ger. from Lat. praedicamentum, a category) The Kantian name for the innate a priori forms of the understanding, since each category is a way of predicating something of a subject, and since there are twelve types of judgment, Kant enumerated twelve praedicamentstotality, plurality, unity, reality, negation, limitation, substantiality-inherence, causality-dependence, reciprocity, possibility-impossibility, being and non-being, … Continue reading “Predicament”

Predicables (Lat. praedicabilia) In Aristotle’s logic the five types of predicates that may be affirmed or denied of a subject in a logical proposition, viz. definition, genus, differentia, property, and accident. The list of predicables as formulated by Porphyry and later logicians omits definition and includes species. See DefinitionGenus; Species; Differentia; Property; Accident. — G.R.M. … Continue reading “Predicables”

Predicable is a term of scholastic logic, and connected with the scheme of classification. There were five designations employed in classifying objects on a systematic plan: genus, species, difference (differentia), property (proprium), and accident (accidens). The first two-genus and species-name the higher and lower classes of the things classified; a genus comprehends several species. The … Continue reading “Predicable”

Predetermination Purpose set up beforehand. — V.F. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Predet, Pierre, D.D a Roman Catholic priest, was born at Sehasat, France, about 1801; educated at Clermont; became a member of the Society of St. Sulpice, and came to Baltimore in 1831, where, till his death, January 1, 1856, he was attached to St. Mary’s Seminary. He is said to have been a diligent and … Continue reading “Predet, Pierre, D.D”

Predestination 1. Context.-Predestination in its widest reference, as attributed to God, is His eternal purpose, according to the counsel of His will, whereby, for His own glory, He hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass (The Shorter Catechism, A. 7). The word predestinate appears nowhere in the AV_ of the OT, and in the NT it … Continue reading “Predestination”

Predestinatians A sect which arose in Gaul shortly after the time when the Pelagian and Semi Pelagian disputes commenced. They held that God not only predestinated the wicked to eternal punishment, but also to the guilt and transgression for which they are punished; and that thus all the good and bad actions of men are … Continue reading “Predestinatians”

Predestinate The apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Romans, (Rom 8:29) speaking of God, saith, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.” And elsewhere the same apostle, speaking of the church in Christ, saith, “that he hath predestinated them to the adoption of … Continue reading “Predestinate”

PREDESTINARIANS Those who believe in predestination. See PREDESTINATION. Fuente: Theological Dictionary

Predestinarianism Predestinarianism is a heresy not unfrequently met with in the course of the centuries which reduces the eternal salvation of the elect as well as the eternal damnation of the reprobate to one cause alone, namely to the sovereign will of God, and thereby excludes the free co-operation of man as a secondary factor … Continue reading “Predestinarianism”