Daniel Tilenus
Daniel Tilenus (1563–1633) was a French Protestant theologian. Initially a Calvinist, he became a prominent and influential Arminian teaching at the Academy of Sedan. He was an open critic of the Synod of Dort of 1618-9.
He was on friendly terms with Hugo Grotius; they shared a house in 1622/3. He was also close to the philosopher Walter Donaldson.[1]
Controversies
A divisive controversy with Pierre Du Moulin broke out in 1612.[2] They had earlier, in 1601, been allies on the Huguenot side of a public disputation against the Catholic Jacques-Davy Duperron and others. Du Moulin's view was that the christological attitude of Tilenus endangered the doctrine of justification; the matter became a very public split among Huguenots. James I of England exerted himself to restore Protestant unity in France, working through the Huguenot aristocrats Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon and Philippe de Mornay, and also his own envoys David Home and Thomas Edmondes. The issue was patched up by 1615.[3]
At Sedan Andrew Melville arrived from Scotland (via the Tower of London) and became a difficult colleague, sharing in the theology teaching.[4] In April 1620 Tilenus set up, at L'Isle, near Orléans, a debate with John Cameron, on the conclusions at Dort. Cameron published his version as Amica collatio de gratia et voluntatis humanae concursu in vocatione (1622).[5] Later in that year Tilenus was finally forced out from Sedan by general hostility, and went to England; there he published against presbyterianism.[4] He was pursued by a personal attack by James Sempill, a friend of Melville.[6]
Notes
- ^ Durkan, John. "Donaldson, Walter". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7807. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ W. B. Patterson, King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (1997), p. 158 and later.
- ^ Brian G. Armstrong, Vivienne Larminie,. "Du Moulin, Pierre". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19430.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) - ^ a b Dictionary of National Biography, Melville or Melvill, Andrew (1545–1622), Scottish presbyterian leader and scholar, by Alexander Gordon. Published 1894.
- ^ Brockliss, L. W. B. "Cameron, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4444. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Wright, Stephen. "Sempill, James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25073. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)