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Effectual calling

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(Theol.) a doctrine concerning the work of the Holy Spirit in producing conviction of sin and acceptance of salvation by Christ, - one of the five points of Calvinism. See Calvinism.

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Despite the claims of Tom Ascol, "Calvinism, Evangelism & Founders Ministries," Founders Journal 45 (Summer 2001): 1-21, that the Sandy Creek Principles of Faith (1816) were Calvinistic, they were quite brief and appear to have been left undefined enough to allow latitude of interpretation of certain points, such as predestination and effectual calling.
Thomas Hooker, The Soules Vocation or Effectual Calling to Christ (London, 1638) p.
The Divine Energy; or the efficacious Operations of the Spirit of God upon the Soul of Man in his effectual calling conversion, stated proved and vindicated, Whereto the real weakness and insufficiency of moral suasion, without the super-addition of God's power, for faith and conversion to god are fully evinced Being an antidote against the Pelagian heresy.
 
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