Calvin - Theistic Fatalism

In this section we will see that Calvin is complaining that people were calling Augustine's doctrine of Determinism and his doctrine of Unconditional Predestination as fate.

Fatalism - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatalism

Fatalism is a philosophical doctrine that stresses the subjugation of all events or actions to destiny. Fatalism generally refers to any of the following ideas: The view that we are powerless to do anything other than what we actually do.

The problem is he actually makes it very clear that though their doctrines do differ from the Gnostic and Stoic views of fate, they do however fall under the deffinition of Fatalism differing only by the fact that all of these events are governed by God.

John Calvin [a.d. 1509-1564]
BOOK FIRST. OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE CREATOR

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.iii.vii.html

 

8. Those who would cast obloquy on this doctrine, calumniate it as the dogma of the Stoics concerning fate. The same charge was formerly brought against Augustine (lib. ad Bonifac. 2, c. 6 et alibi). We are unwilling to dispute about words; but we do not admit the term Fate, both because it is of the class which Paul teaches us to shun, as profane novelties (1 Tim. 6:20), and also because it is attempted, by means of an odious term, to fix a stigma on the truth of God. But the dogma itself is falsely and maliciously imputed to us. For we do not with the Stoics imagine a necessity consisting of a perpetual chain of causes, and a kind of involved series contained in nature, but we hold that God is the disposer and ruler of all things,--that from the remotest eternity, according to his own wisdom, he decreed what he was to do, and now by his power executes what he decreed. Hence we maintain, that by his providence, not heaven and earth and inanimate creatures only, but also the counsels and wills of men are so governed as to move exactly in the course which he has destined.