supralapsarianism
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- supralapsarian noun
Etymology
Origin of supralapsarianism
1765–75; supra- + lapsarian, as in infralapsarian + -ism
Example Sentences
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The issue of supralapsarianism v. infralapsarianism was avoided.
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Whitgift strove to force on the Church the Calvinistic supralapsarianism of his Lambeth Articles.
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Supralapsarianism, the doctrine of the extreme Calvinists, that the decree of God as regards the eternal salvation of some and the eternal reprobation of others is unconditional.
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He was a shepherd to trade, and very faithful in all his work, but his life business was theology, from Supralapsarianism in Election to the marks of faith in a believer's heart.
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