ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

PURITAN LITERATURE

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The belief that everything that happens has already been determined by God and there is no way to change that.
A
Predestination
B
Puritan
C
Conceit
D
Antithesis
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Predeterminism is the philosophy that all events of history, past, present and future, have been already decided or are already known (by God, fate, or some other force), including human actions. Predeterminism is closely related to determinism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Explanations of predestination often seek to address the paradox of free will, whereby God’s omniscience seems incompatible with human free will. In this usage, predestination can be regarded as a form of religious determinism; and usually predeterminism, also known as theological determinism.

Detailed explanation-3: -(pridɛstɪneɪʃən, pridɛs-) uncountable noun. If you believe in predestination, you believe that people have no control over events because everything has already been decided by a power such as God or fate. Synonyms: fate, destiny, predetermination, election [theology] More Synonyms of predestination.

Detailed explanation-4: -Article Summary. Predestination appears to be a religious or theological version of universal determinism, a version in which the final determining factor is the will or action of God.

Detailed explanation-5: -At its heart is the concept of predestination. Calvinists believe that, at the beginning of time, God selected a limited number of souls to grant salvation and there’s nothing any individual person can do during their mortal life to alter their eternal fate.

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