sublapsarian

/ ˌsʌblæpˈsɛərɪən /

noun

1. another word for infralapsarianism

Derived Forms

• ˌsublapˈsarianism, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sublapsarian¹

C17: via New Latin, from Latin sub- + lāpsus a fall

Example Sentences

Sublapsarian, sub-laps-ā′ri-an, adj. relating to the sublapsarians or to their doctrines.—n. one of a class of moderate Calvinists, who hold that God merely permitted the fall of Adam, without preordaining it.—n.

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I have abandoned such belittling views of God as the Presbyterian sublapsarian view of election.

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Does it please him, according even to the sublapsarian scheme, to leave the great mass of mankind in the helpless and forlorn condition in which they were born, without assistance, and then subject them to eternal misery, because they would not render an obedience beyond their power?

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So far as can be collected from the imperfect account we have of the circumstances of the case, Dr. Strang discovered, it was imagined, a bias to Arminianism, whereas he seems to have been merely more of a sublapsarian than a supralapsarian.

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They have fed Dr. Rees, and Dr. Kippis; crowded the congregations of the Old Jewry to suffocation: and enabled every sublapsarian, and superlapsarian, and semi- pelagian clergyman, to build himself a neat brick chapel, and live with some distant resemblance to the state of a gentleman.

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