High and Low Grace

There are many kinds of calvinists. I want to first discuss what high calvinism and low calvinism are. I sorta hinted at what dutch calvinism was when i started talking on neocalvinism.

First off, the distinction between infra/supra-lapsarianism is insuffiecent for classifying high and low calvinism because each system leads to the same conclusions. John Gill showed this. It is based on perspective just as much as anything. High calvinists will tend to be supralapsarian whereas low calvinists will be infralapsarian. If you don't know these terms, you are likely infra.

The real distinction for high and low is on the focus. High calvinism will stress decrees from eternity past and predestination. Low Calvinism will stress God's sovereignty without addressing these things outside of God's active work within creation. Low calvinism will also be more means oriented with the idea of instrumentality and respect secondary causes like gospel preaching to all. There is some overlap between the two. People were called low and high calvinists often in a derrogatory way.

It should also be noted that high does not = hyper. Yet, all hyper calvinists are high calvinists. Hypercalvinists are in fact high calvinists who forget the gospel applies to all men without exception.

I am somewhere in the middle between these two like most people. I started higher in my doctrine but have moved downward slightly. I guess it was a good thing.