What's the difference between calvinist and infralapsarian?
Calvinist
Definition:
(n.) A follower of Calvin; a believer in Calvinism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hollande's surname is believed to come from Calvinist ancestors who escaped the Netherlands in the 16th century and took the name of their old country.
(2) Among other things, the novels work as a meditation on America's Calvinist conscience, its strengths and blindnesses, and the way that it moved from fanaticism to smugness in the century after the civil war.
(3) The Calvinist background I guess … Scottish blood, you know he does seem to believe in the work ethic."
(4) Do we cede them to the religious and just look like a bunch of Calvinists?
(5) She got rather cross with Simon Schama recently for what she saw, in his writings about early Dutch culture, as a faulty sense of Calvinism - "the dear old song of Renaissance Europe" as she calls it - and confronted him on a panel in New York for characterising Calvinists as a bunch of joyless busybodies.
(6) Murdoch on Blair and Brown, October 2006 "Gordon has a Calvinistic approach to life, and there is a lot to be said for it.
(7) Although Calvinist settlers suppressed the expression of Hawaiian surfing spirituality on the basis it might lead to all manner of ungodliness, there are Christian Surfers organisations worldwide nowadays – Zac Young, the 19-year-old who died in a shark attack at the weekend, was a member – and even a Jesus Pro Am in Newcastle.
(8) They embraced wholeheartedly the charismatic revival – talking in tongues, miraculous healing, fainting in the spirit, and even prophecies – all things anathema to the older Calvinist tradition that was then dominant among Cambridge evangelicals.
(9) "I said, what did you mean by 'Calvinist orthodoxy'?
(10) And, yes, there’s a certain amount of Scots Calvinist guilt in all that – in any freelance lifestyle you can’t rely on it past the next contract end.” Does he, I ask, feel guilty often?
(11) Merkel's Calvinist approach to dealing with Europe's crisis-hit southern periphery may have softened, as the leader looks to re-election next year, but as tiny Greece stares into the abyss with enough funds to survive only until the end of next month, the message was clear: apply more draconian measures and the rescue funds will keep pouring in.
(12) For instance, when South Africa's women, children and disabilities minister Lulu Xingwana went on Australian television after Steenkamp’s shooting and said Pistorius’ behaviour was typical of "young Afrikaner men who are brought up in the Calvinist religion” , she did not mention disability as potentially playing a role.
(13) That's splash sorted, then: PM DECLARES WAR ON CALVINISTS #conference October 2, 2013 From the BBC's Nick Robinson Nick Robinson (@bbcnickrobinson) Cameron speech in summary (correction): 25 x LABOUR (cf 2 LIBS, 1 COALITION & 0 CLEGG) 15 x "FINISH(ING) THE JOB" + 13 "LAND OF OPPORTUNITY" October 2, 2013 12.36pm BST Here's Ed Miliband on the speech.
(14) The second element was a conservative evangelical movement that had always been a part of the Church of England, but which gained control of the rich diocese of Sydney in Australia and attempted with great energy and some success to build up an international network of hardline Calvinist churches.
(15) The fact that they attended Welsh-language services at a Calvinistic Methodist chapel and not the English-language Church of England did not alter their British identity one bit, any more than did the fact that they read Dafydd ap Gwilym and the Mabinogion as well as Shakespeare and Dickens.
(16) "He is a very deep Calvinist who believes in the duty of people to work and I approve of that very strongly."
(17) His Calvinist imagination, quick to conjure doom, and possibly the looming shadow of debt that would end in his expulsion from the paradise garden at Concord, provoked Hawthorne to create something very like its obverse: namely a garden of death.
(18) But the eyecatcher is his section on genetics, implying human fate is sealed at birth, as the Calvinists and eugenicists thought.
(19) Millar's Calvinistic theology repelled liberals, while bishops and many of the clergy resisted church plantings on their turf.
(20) Asked whether he would be content to see the chancellor succeed Mr Blair as prime minister, he reportedly said: "He is a very deep Calvinist who believes in the duty of people to work and I approve of that very strongly."
Infralapsarian
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Infralapsarians, or to their doctrine.