Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to infralapsarianism or to those who hold it.
- noun [capitalized] One who believes in infralapsarianism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Theol.) Of or pertaining to the Infralapsarians, or to their doctrine.
- noun (Eccl. Hist.) One of that class of Calvinists who consider the decree of election as contemplating the apostasy as past and the elect as being at the time of election in a fallen and guilty state; -- opposed to
Supralapsarian . The former considered the election of grace as a remedy for an existing evil; the latter regarded the fall as a part of God's original purpose in regard to men.
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- noun Christianity A
Calvinist who holds that election is a logical consequent of theFall of man in the originaldivine plan .
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Examples
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church — a far from authoritative source, I fear — declares that the terms "infralapsarian" and "sublapsarian" are interchangeable and favors the latter.
Dangerous Topic Libolt, Clayton 1982
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My response is that concupiscence dwells "objectively" in the body, and continues its "objective" presence in the body throughout the course of our infralapsarian existence; and that we should expect holiness to "trump" temptations or disordered tendencies in the area of sexuality exactly as often as we should expect holiness to "trump" the reality of having to undergo death.
David L. Schindler criticizes Christopher West's work with TOTB 2009
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My response is that concupiscence dwells "objectively" in the body, and continues its "objective" presence in the body throughout the course of our infralapsarian existence; and that we should expect holiness to "trump" temptations or disordered tendencies in the area of sexuality exactly as often as we should expect holiness to "trump" the reality of having to undergo death.
Television 2009
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My response is that concupiscence dwells "objectively" in the body, and continues its "objective" presence in the body throughout the course of our infralapsarian existence; and that we should expect holiness to "trump" temptations or disordered tendencies in the area of sexuality exactly as often as we should expect holiness to "trump" the reality of having to undergo death.
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My response is that concupiscence dwells "objectively" in the body, and continues its "objective" presence in the body throughout the course of our infralapsarian existence; and that we should expect holiness to "trump" temptations or disordered tendencies in the area of sexuality exactly as often as we should expect holiness to "trump" the reality of having to undergo death.
Pope John Paul II 2009
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Canons does not rule on this controversy but favors the infralapsarian side.
Dangerous Topic Libolt, Clayton 1982
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Canons of Dort is not sublapsarian but infralapsarian.
Dangerous Topic Libolt, Clayton 1982
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This view, that God enacted His predes - tinating decrees only after Adam's fall, has been labeled infralapsarian or sublapsarian.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT M. KINGDON 1968
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Assembly, while they clearly imply the infralapsarian view, were yet so framed as to avoid offence to those who adopted the supralapsarian theory.
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The Scriptures are practically infralapsarian, — Christians are said to have been chosen "out of" the world, John 15: 19; the potter has a right over the clay, "from the same lump," to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor, Romans 9: 21; and the elect and the non-elect are regarded as being originally in a common state of misery.
andrew.simone commented on the word infralapsarian
You will actually find this word in A Portrait of The Artist without grammatical backflips.
December 6, 2006
whichbe commented on the word infralapsarian
One who holds that Adam and Eve chose their acts of their own free will. (From WordCraft)
May 20, 2008