单词 | sublapsarian |
释义 | sublapsarianadj.n. Theology. A. adj. Designating the Calvinist doctrine that God's election of only some people to everlasting life was not originally part of the divine plan, but a consequence of the Fall of Man; of, relating to, or holding this view. Opposed to supralapsarian adj.Largely synonymous with Infralapsarian adj., but some writers distinguish the two (see note at Infralapsarian n.). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > doctrine of salvation > [adjective] > sublapsarianism sublapsarian1633 Sublapsary1728 post-lapsarian1733 Infralapsarian1775 1633 S. Hoard Gods Love to Mankind 50 (heading) The Sublapsarian doctrine crosseth Gods Attributes. a1646 W. Twisse Riches of Gods Love (1653) i. 150 Neither will it follow, by the Sublapsarian Doctrine, that God doth not decree to punish any man with damnation, but for those sinnes wherein he dyeth unrepented of. 1660 H. Hammond Χάρις καὶ Εἰρήνη 14 The Decree of Reprobation according to the Sublapsarian Doctrine, being nothing else but a meer preterition or non-election of some persons whom God left, as he found them. a1751 P. Doddridge Course of Lect. (1763) 460 The Supralapsarian and Sublapsarian schemes agree in asserting the doctrine of predestination, but with this difference. 1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. Cent. xvii. ii. ii. ii. §10 The Sublapsarian doctors. 1825 J. Mackintosh Let. 12 Sept. in R. J. Mackintosh Life (1835) II. vii. 424 This is obvious with respect to the sublapsarian scheme; for the sublapsarian maintains that man lost his free-will by the fall. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 671/1 The canons of Dort..are favourable to the sublapsarian view. 1937 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1935–7 C. 43 283 Versed in sub-lapsarian and supra-lapsarian technicalities he is determined to make out at all costs that the Will of God which claims man's obedience is the revealed Will only. 2001 F. L. Forlines Quest for Truth xvii. 405 Sublapsarian Calvinists believe that God decreed the provision of atonement for all mankind. B. n. A person who believes or advocates the sublapsarian view. Cf. Infralapsarian n. Opposed to supralapsarian n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > doctrine of salvation > [noun] > sublapsarianism > adherent sublapsarian1646 Infralapsarian1731 1646 A. Ross Centurie Divine Medit. xiii. 11 (margin) Sublapsarians. 1656 Bp. J. Taylor Deus Justificatus 33 The Sublapsarians say, That God made it by his decree necessary, that all wee who were born of Adam should be born guilty of Originall Sin. 1737 J. Gill Cause God & Truth III. ii. 48 The Sublapsarians, indeed, suppose the objects of Election to be men consider'd as fallen. 1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. Cent. xvii. ii. ii. §12 The Reformed church was immediately divided into Universalists, Semi-universalists, Supralapsarians, and Sublapsarians. 1849 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 359 In his creed he inclined to the mildest form of Calvinism, being what is called a Sublapsarian. 1894 C. H. Simpkinson Life & Times W. Laud i. 13 The Puritan chiefs, divided into two hostile camps of sublapsarians and supralapsarians, argued interminably the question whether the Divine decrees of rigid election or reprobation dated from before or after the fall of Adam. 1915 G. A. Blackburn in Life Work J. L. Girardeau xii. 371 In theology, he was a Sub-lapsarian; in morals, a Puritan; and in government a Presbyterian. 2000 D. A. S. Fergusson in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 563/2 Disputes between supralapsarians, who held that the decrees logically preceded the divine permission of the Fall, and infralapsarians or sublapsarians. Derivatives sublapˈsarianism n. the doctrine of the sublapsarians; cf. Infralapsarianism n. at Infralapsarian n. and adj. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > doctrine of salvation > [noun] > sublapsarianism sublapsarianism1779 Infralapsarianism1847 1779 R. Robinson in tr. J. Claude Ess. Composition Serm. II. vi. 153/2 (note) Arminius and Gomar took different sides, divines divided with them, sublapsarianism and supralapsarianism, freewill and freegrace were debated. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Oct. 11 Predestinarianism, Supra-lapsarianism, Sublapsarianism, with all their various minor variations. 1900 E. D. Morris Theol. Westm. Symbols iv. 188 Macpherson quotes the rejection..of the phrase, to bring this to pass God ordained to permit man to fall, as evidence of the supreme influence of sublapsarianism in the Assembly. 1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 10 With the mystery of His freedom vanished the passionately debated distinctions of sublapsarianism, supralapsarianism, and infralapsarianism, in regard to the precise moment when God imposes election. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1633 |
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