supralapsarian

/ ˌsuːprəlæpˈsɛərɪən, ˌsjuː- /

noun

1. Christian theol a person who believes that God decreed the election or nonelection of individuals to salvation even before the Fall Compare infralapsarian

Other Word Forms

• supralapsarianism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of supralapsarian¹

C17: from New Latin suprālapsārius, from Latin _supra- + lapsus a fall

Example Sentences

His superstitious fears, 367 Calvinists: tendency of the Supralapsarian to deny the existence of a moral sense, i.

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Supralapsarian, sū-pra-laps-ā′ri-an, n. one of a class of Calvinists who make the decree of election and predestination to precede the Creation and the Fall—opp. to Sublapsarian.—adj. pertaining to the Supralapsarians or to their opinions.—n.

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The two ministers of Delft, who had debated the point with him, had, the better to turn his arguments, descended from the 577 supralapsarian to the infralapsarian position, i.e. made the divine decree, instead of precede and determine, succeed the Fall.

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He had as colleague Franz Gomarus, a strong supralapsarian, perfervid, irrepressible; and their collisions, personal, official, political, tended to develop and define their respective positions.

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In these they reacted against both the supralapsarian and the infralapsarian developments of the doctrine of predestination and combated the irresistibility of grace; they held that Christ died for all men and not only for the elect, and were not sure that the elect might not fall from grace.

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