for his views at the Geneva Academy, where he had studied under Calvin’s successor, Theodore Beza, he left quietly. When Genevan authorities became angry at Arminius’s defense of French humanist Peter Ramus, Arminius left for Basel. He was offered a doctorate there but turned it down on the grounds that his youth (he was only 24 or 25) would bring dishonor to the title. It was his study of the Epistle to the Romans as an Amsterdam minister that set Jacob Arminius firmly against Calvinism. Faith,