Infralapsarian ism

in-frä-lap-sā′ri-an-izm, n. ( theol. ) the common August in i an and Calvin ist doctrine, that God for His own glory determined to create the world, to permit the fall of men, to elect from the ma of fallen men an innumerable multitude as 've els of mercy,' to send His Son for their redemption, to leave the residue of mankind to suffer the just punishment of their sins—distinct both from the Supralapsarian ism of the strictest Calvinists and the Sublapsarianism held by moderate Calvinists.— n. Infralapsā′rian , one who holds the foregoing. [L. infra , below, after, lapsus , the fall.]