18 JUNE 1988, Page 25

Arminian Margaret

Sir: I was interested to read Charles Moore's comments on the Prime Minister's address to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (Diary, 28 May).

I would remind him that it was John Wesley who rejected the Calvinistic doc- trine of predestination and limited atone- ment in favour of the Arminian doctrine of general redemption and free will.

It was therefore as an orthodox Method- ist theologian that Mrs Thatcher addressed the General Assembly. You don't find many of them today!

D. G. Evans

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