Types of Calvinism

Types of Calvinism (Points 1 to 9): 

1) Total Hyper-Calvinism 

They reject duty-faith, well-meant offer of gospel, common grace, any love for the reprobate by God, universal preaching of the gospel.  

God is the author of sin and man has no responsibility before God, the Gospel should only be preached to the elect; They are usually anti-evangelistic or sometimes restrictive.

They believe in eternal justification, active reprobation, that God works ends without means, Providence and moral responsibility are incompatible, Determinism (ends up in fatalism in practice), Supralapsarianism and selective evangelism 

Hyper-Calvinism therefore can be defined as believing in any one of these:

• God is the author of sin and evil 
• Human beings have absolutely no will whatsoever 
• Individuals are not responsible for their own decisions and actions 
• Justification occurs in eternity, not in time 
• God does not command all people to repent of sin 
• Not everyone is required to believe upon Christ Jesus for salvation 
• God creates unbelief in the hearts of the non-elect 
• Assurance of election must be sought prior to repentance and faith 
• Election is evident simply by a profession of faith, regardless of sanctification (antinomianism) 
• Saving faith is equivalent to believing predestination (only “Calvinists” are Christians) 
• Limited atonement must be believed in order to hear the gospel and be saved 
• Evangelism is unnecessary, or even wrong 
• God has no love whatsoever for humanity in His providence (common grace)

 2) Partial Hyper-Calvinism: 

They reject common grace and well-meant offer of the gospel, any love for the reprobate by God, universal preaching of the gospel, sometimes duty-faith.  

They believe in some form of eternal justification (not strongly though), active reprobation, no love for the reprobate by God, hardest version of determinism, supralapsarianism and restricted evangelism.  

3) Ultra High Calvinism 

Denies the Well– Meant Offer, Common Grace, and the idea that God has any love for the non-elect.   

They believe that the elect are in some sense eternally justified, believe in double predestination (determinism), supralapsarianism, Universal preaching of the gospel, many times active reprobation, little to no love for the reprobate by God, duty-faith.  

4) High Calvinism 

Most deny the Well-Meant Offer, Common Grace and the idea that God has any love for the non-elect (That God in NO sense desires to save the reprobate).   

Most are Supralapsarian viewing God’s decrees. Double destination. All hold to limited atonement. Most believe in particular grace and see the atonement as sufficient only for the elect. All believe redemption is applied by legal imputation.  

5) Moderate Calvinism 

That God does in some sense desires to save the reprobate, Infralapsarian in viewing God’s decrees. 

Affirms Common Grace, Most believe redemption is applied by faith. They usually believe in well-meant offer of the gospel, universal preaching of the gospel, Non-salvific love for the reprobate by God.  

6) Lower Moderate Calvinism

Mostly they believe in Infralapsarianism, or sometimes without any lapsarian position, believe in common grace and well-meant offer of the gospel, universal preaching of the gospel, Non-salvific love for the reprobate, sometimes salvific love, mostly single predestination and sometimes double destination.  

7) Low Calvinism  

That Christ died for all in a legal sense, so one can speak of Christ dying for the non-elect. That God has two distinct wills. Affirms the Well-Meant Offer and Common Grace. Mostly Infralapsarian or without any lapsarian view, universal preaching of the gospel, many times believe in salvific love for the non-elect, softer forms of double predestination  

8) Lowest Calvinism

Mostly without any lapsarian view, believe in common grace and well-meant offer of the gospel, salvific love for the non-elect, single predestination only. 

 9) Amyraldism (4 point Calvinism)

Mostly without any lapsarian view, Salvific grace for all, general atonement, common grace and usually love for all people, usually some form of election, single predestination only.   

10) Arminianism: 

That God has given man libertarian freedom, that God’s knowledge of future is solely based on His foreknowledge. That Christ died for all and desires all to be saved. A person can fall from the state of grace i.e. lose ones salvation, since it is our free will that chooses Christ at conversion.

Note: The last point, 'arminianism' is not to be considered as any part of Calvinism. 

I believe in High-Calvinism.

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