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This study aims to explore how Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus shows religious attitudes in relation to the Calvinist/anti-Calvinist view through dramatic purposes. Throughout the play, Marlowe himself seems to proposition a more secularized attitude and criticizes religious bias, reflecting contemporary attitudes. The religious discourse of Renaissance England revealed in Doctor Faustus echoes how the society represented the negative aspect of conventional Christianity. Throughout the play, Marlowe presents an anti-hero who is reluctant to submissively be led to victory over evil. Faustus’s struggles against sin and salvation reflect the doctrinal ambiguities and uncertainties of the time in terms of skepticism. The theological framework associated within the predestination-related debate in the play is reflected with a Calvinist attitude as an individual communion with God. However, from an anti-Calvinist view, Doctor Faustus portrays human destiny as self-evaluation and self-determination by free will accompanied with subversion.
