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[[Image:Jakob Arminius, Nordisk familjebok.png|thumb|160px|Jacobus Arminius]] |
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'''Jacobus Arminius''' (aka '''Jacob Arminius''', '''James Arminius''', and his Dutch name '''Jacob Harmenszoon''' or '''Jakob Hermann''') ([[1560]]-[[1609]]) was a [[The Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Christian theology|theologian]] and (until [[1603]]) professor in theology at the [[University of Leiden]]. He wrote many books about theological problems. |
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== Life== |
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''See also: [[History of Calvinist-Arminian Debate]]'' |
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Arminius was born at [[Oudewater]], [[Utrecht (province)|Utrecht]], on [[October 10]], [[1560]]. Arminius is a Latinized form of Hermannsoon or Hermansen. His father died while Jacobus was an infant, leaving his mother a widow with small children. A priest, Theodorus Aemilius, adopted Jacobus and sent him to school at [[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]]. His mother was slain during the Spanish massacre of Oudewater in [[1575]]. About that year Arminius was sent to study theology at the [[University of Leiden]] by the kindness of friends (Rudophus Snellius). |
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Arminius remained at Leiden from [[1576]] to [[1582]]. His teachers in theology included Lambertus Danaeus, Johannes Drusius, Guillaume Feuguereius, and Johann Kolmann. Kolmann believed and taught that high [[Calvinism]] made God both a tyrant and an executioner. Under the influence of these men, Arminius studied with success and had seeds planted that would begin to develop into a theology that would later compete with the dominant Reformed theology of [[John Calvin]]. Arminius began studying under [[Theodore Beza]] at Geneva in [[1582]]. He was called to pastor at Amsterdam and was ordained in [[1588]]. He was reputed to be a good preacher and faithful pastor. In [[1590]] he married Lijsbet Reael. |
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== Theology == |
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{{Arminianism}} |
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Arminius is best known as the founder of the anti-Calvinistic school in Reformed Protestant theology, and thereby lent his name to a movement which resisted some of the tenets of Calvinism - [[Arminianism]]. The early Dutch followers of Arminius' teaching were also called the [[Remonstrants]], after they issued a document containing five points of disagreement with classic Calvinism, entitled ''Remonstrantiœ'' (1610). In attempting to defend Calvinistic [[Predestination (Calvinism)|predestination]] against the onslaughts of [[Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert]], it is contended that Arminius began to doubt and thus modified some parts of his view. However, in a much less severe way compared to John Calvin's difference on the issue of limited atonement from his [[Institutes of the Christian Religion]] to his later commentaries. He became a professor of theology at [[Leiden]] in [[1603]]. Jacobus Arminius died in Leiden on [[October 19]], [[1609]]. The theology of Arminianism was not fully developed during Arminius' time, but was systematized after his death and formalized in the ''[[Remonstrants|Five articles of the Remonstrants]]'' in [[1610]]. The works of Arminius (in Latin) were published at Leiden in [[1629]], and at [[Frankfort]] in [[1631]] and [[1635]]. After his death the [[Synod of Dordrecht]] ([[1618]]-[[1619]]) judged his theology and its adherents [[anathema]]s. |
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[[John Wesley]], founder of the [[Methodism|Methodist movement]], embraced Arminian theology and became its most prominent champion. Today, Methodism remains committed to Arminian theology, and Arminianism itself has become one of the dominant theological systems in the [[United States]]. |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.ccel.org/php/disp.php3?authorID=schaff&bookID=encyc01&page=296 Jacobus Arminius] - from ''The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge'' |
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*[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/arminius/works1.all.html The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] |
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*[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/arminius/works2.all.html The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] |
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*[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/arminius/works3.all.html The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3] |
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[[Category:1560 births|Arminius, Jacobus]] |
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[[Category:Dutch theologians|Arminius, Jacobus]] |
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[[Category:Methodism|Arminius, James]] |
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[[Category:Heretics|Arminius and Synod of Dordrecht]] |
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