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www.remonstranten.nl /engels /. The Remonstrants (or the Remonstrant Brotherhood) is a Protestant movement that split from the Dutch Reformed Church in the early 17th century. The early Remonstrants supported Jacobus Arminius, and after his death, continued to maintain his original views called Arminianism against the proponents of Calvinism.
Five Articles of Remonstrance. The Five Articles of Remonstrance or the Remonstrance were theological propositions advanced in 1610 by followers of Jacobus Arminius who had died in 1609, in disagreement with interpretations of the teaching of John Calvin then current in the Dutch Reformed Church. Those who supported them were called "Remonstrants".
The Remonstrant confession of 1621 was revised and published in a succinct form in 1940, losing most of its original details. [18] This revision was made as a testimony against the spiritual pretensions of National Socialism at the start of the German occupation of the Netherlands (1940-1945). Afterwards a revision was done in 2006.
The Counter-Remonstrance of 1611 was the Dutch Reformed Churches' response to the controversial Remonstrants ' Five Articles of Remonstrance, which challenged the Calvinist theology and the Reformed Confessions that the Remonstrants had sworn to uphold. The Counter Remonstrance was written primarily by Festus Hommius and defended the Belgic ...
Jacobus Arminius. Jacobus Arminius (/ ɑːrˈmɪniəs /; Dutch: Jakob Hermanszoon[a] ; 10 October 1560 – 19 October 1609) was a Dutch Reformed minister and theologian during the Protestant Reformation period whose views became the basis of Arminianism and the Dutch Remonstrant movement. He served from 1603 as professor in theology at the ...
The Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland is a founder of, and active within the Irish Council of Churches and the European Liberal Protestant Network (ELPN). Today, the denomination has thirty-four congregations (thirty-three churches) on the island of Ireland, divided into three Presbyteries, with a total of about four thousand members.
The Hohe Schule in Burgsteinfurt [], where Vorstius was a professor before he moved to Leiden. Vorstius was born one of ten children at Cologne on 19 July 1569. His parents Theodor Vorstius and his wife Sophia Starckia [8] were Roman Catholic and wanted him to become a Catholic priest, but the parents converted to Protestant belief before he could undertake these studies. [1]
4 April 1643 (aged 60) Amsterdam. Occupation. University teacher. Employer. Remonstrants seminary (1634–1643) Leiden University (1612–1619) Simon Episcopius (8 January 1583 – 4 April 1643) was a Dutch theologian and Remonstrant who played a significant role at the Synod of Dort in 1618. [1] His name is the Latinized form of his Dutch name ...