absolute decree

The concept of taqdir is that of the absolute decree of the Divine.

God's absolute decree, if one may speak of such a thing, is God's gracious decision to be for humanity in the person of Jesus Christ.

His Gods Love to Mankind; manifested by disproving his absolute Decree for their Damnation provoked several answers.

To reconcile the indifference and contingency of human actions with prescience; or to defend absolute decrees, and yet free the Deity from being the author of sin, has been found hitherto to exceed all the power of philosophy.

In keeping with his Christo-centric methodology, Barth argues that to ascribe the salvation or damnation of humanity to an abstract absolute decree is to make some part of God more final and definitive than God's saving act in Jesus Christ.

It was cited in Joseph Hall's Via Media and Davenant's Animadversions upon a Treatise lately published by S. Hoard, and entitled "God's Love to mankind, manifested in disproving his absolute decree for their damnation" (1641).