fatalisms

Updated: May 20, 2025

In the hands of a logical Frenchman like Calvin, pushing it to its utmost conclusions, and devising "institutes" for hardheaded adult Scots and literal Swiss, it becomes the most infernal of fatalisms; and the lives of civilized children are blighted by its logic whilst negro piccaninnies are rejoicing in its legends.

Bernard Shaw - Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion

And this leads directly to the chief differential which Christianity presents in contrast with the fatalisms of false systems, viz., that while sin and death abound, as all must see, the Gospel alone reveals a superabounding grace.

Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood - Oriental Religions and Christianity: A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the: Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891