Although the minority view among Calvinists, the list of theologians who are supralapsarian with respect to the logical order of God's decrees (or more accurately, the order of the elements in God's single eternal decree) is an impressive one. The following people have been identified (or call themselves) supralapsarians:
- Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562)
- John Knox (1505-1572)
- Jerome Zanchius (1516-1590)
- Theodore Beza (1519-1605)
- William Whitaker (1548-1595)
- William Perkins (1558-1602)
- Franciscus Gomarus (1563-1641)
- William Ames (1576-1633)
- Johannes Bogerman (1576-1637) - president of the Synod of Dort.
- William Twisse (1578-1646) - prolocutor of the Westminster Assembly
- Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676)
- Thomas Goodwin (1600-1680)
- Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661)
- Alexander Comrie (1706-1774)
- Augustus M. Toplady (1740-1778)
- Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)
- Geerhardus Vos (1862-1949)
- G. H. Kersten (1882-1948)
- Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952)
- Herman Hoeksema (1886-1965)
- Gordon H. Clark (1902-1985)
- Robert L. Reymond (1932-2013)
It is debatable whether the first generation of Reformers, Martin Luther (1483-1546), Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) and John Calvin (1509-1564) should also be regarded as supralapsarians., but a good case could be made that they were, along with their contemporaries such as Vermigli, Knox, Zanchius and Beza.
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