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51Predestinarianism — • A heresy 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 in… …
52Sacrament of Marriage — Sacrament of Marriage † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Sacrament of Marriage That Christian marriage (i.e. marriage between baptized persons) is really a sacrament of the New Law in the strict sense of the word is for all Catholics an… …
53Occasionalism — Daisie Radner The seventeenth century doctrine known as occasionalism arose in response to a perceived problem. Cartesian philosophy generated the problem and provided the context for the answer. In the Cartesian ontology, mind and matter are… …
54effective — adjective 1) an effective treatment Syn: successful, effectual, potent, powerful; helpful, beneficial, advantageous, valuable, useful; formal efficacious Ant: ineffective, weak 2) a more effective argume …
55effective — effective, effectual, efficient, efficacious all mean producing or capable of producing a result or results, but they are not freely interchangeable in idiomatic use. Effective emphasizes the actual production of an effect or the power to produce …
56Infallibility — • In general, exemption or immunity from liability to error or failure; in particular in theological usage, the supernatural prerogative by which the Church of Christ is, by a special Divine assistance, preserved from liability to error in her… …
57Ecclesiastical and Religious Vocation — Ecclesiastical and Religious Vocation † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical and Religious Vocation An ecclesiastical or religious vocation is the special gift of those who, in the Church of God, follow with a pure intention the… …
58effective — effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient 1. All these words mean ‘having an effect’ of some kind, but with different applications and shades of meaning. Effective means ‘having a definite or desired effect’ that is actual rather than… …
59effectual — effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient 1. All these words mean ‘having an effect’ of some kind, but with different applications and shades of meaning. Effective means ‘having a definite or desired effect’ that is actual rather than… …
60efficient — effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient 1. All these words mean ‘having an effect’ of some kind, but with different applications and shades of meaning. Effective means ‘having a definite or desired effect’ that is actual rather than… …