予定

FOREORDINATIONよてい[/ˌfɔrɔrdəˈneɪʃən/]名詞

解説

一見、定義が簡単そうに見える言葉。

しかし、敬虔博学な神学者たちがこれを説明するために一生を費やし、
その説明をさらに説明するために図書館を埋め尽くすほどの著作を書いてきた。

予定説予定選び(predestination)の違いによって国々は分裂し、
血の海の戦いが引き起こされ、
自由意志・祈り・賛宗教生活との両立を証明・否定するために莫大なが費やされてきた
——こうした恐ろしい事実を思い返すと、この語の意味を前には恐れおののき、霊の目を伏せ、
その威容を直視することを避け、敬虔に帽子を脱いで、ギボンズ枢機卿とポッター主教閣下に謹んでお任せする。

付記

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Original

This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember that nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life,—recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.

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