Look up: Remonstrants

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   Remonstrants
   Dutch Calvinist sect formed in the early 17th century. They were followers of the Dutch theologian Arminius, who denied the strict Calvinist view on predestination. They set out their views in the...
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   Remonstrants
   `Remonstrants`, the name given to those Dutch Protestants who, after the death of Arminius, maintained the views associated with his name, and in 1610 presented to the states of Holland and Friesland a remonstrance in five articles formulating their points of departure from stricter Calvinism. These were: * that the divine decree of predestination is conditional, not absolute; * that the Atonement is in intention universal; * that man cannot of...
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   Remonstrants
   Remonstrants (remon'strunts) , Dutch Protestants, adherents to the ideas of Jacobus Arminius, whose doctrines after his death (1609) were called Arminianism. They were Calvinists but were more liberal and less dogmatic than orthodox Calvinists and diverged from the teachings of the Dutch Reforme...
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