予よ定てい説せつ

noun

predestination

Primarily a Christian theological term referring to the doctrine that God has foreordained all events and has predetermined the salvation or damnation of individuals.

• カルヴァンの予よ定てい説せつは宗しゅう教きょう改かい革かくの重じゅう要ような教きょう義ぎの一ひとつです。

  Calvin's doctrine of predestination is one of the key tenets of the Reformation.