Amyraldism

Amyraldism (sometimes Amyraldianism) is a <a href="/facts/Calvinism/l95AzJtn">Calvinist</a> doctrine. It is also known as the School of Saumur, post redemptionism, moderate Calvinism, or hypothetical universalism. It is one of several <a href="/facts/Hypothetical_universalist/rKcunyVq">hypothetical universalist</a> systems.
Amyraldism is the belief that <a href="/facts/God/EITpdL9t">God</a> decreed <a href="/facts/Atonement_in_Christianity/8mfcqQQe">Christ's atonement</a>, prior to his decree of election, for all alike if they believe, but he then <a href="/facts/Predestination/yd1eyA0G">elected</a> those whom he will bring to <a href="/facts/Faith_in_Christianity/x9x9tvau">faith in Christ</a>, seeing that none would believe on their own, and thereby preserving the <a href="/facts/Calvinist/l95AzJtn">Calvinist</a> doctrine of <a href="/facts/Unconditional_election/u7FVJG5D">unconditional election</a>. The efficacy of the atonement remains limited to those who believe.
This doctrine is named after its formulator, <a href="/facts/Moses_Amyraut/UkFYssbh">Moses Amyraut</a>, and is viewed as a variety of Calvinism in that it maintains the particularity of sovereign grace in the application of the atonement. However, detractors such as <a href="/facts/B._B._Warfield/4A5tEt0T">B. B. Warfield</a> have termed it "an inconsistent and therefore unstable form of Calvinism". Amyraut additionally proposed an alternative view to covenant theology in which the Mosaic covenant was seen as neither a covenant of grace nor one of works, but rather as a third substance, being a subservient covenant.

Amyraldism open-in-new

Amyraldism