Amyraldism

[From Moses Amyraldus or Amyraut, a French theological profe or at Saumur, who was born in 1596, and died in 1664.] Church Hist. & Theol. The tenets of Amyrald and his followers. They were that God desires the happine of all men, and that none are excluded from it by an eternal decree. That those who would be saved must believe in Christ. That the power of believing is refused to none, but divine a istance effective for the purpose is not bestowed on all. These views were called Universalist, but they were so in words rather than in reality.