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Jacob Arminius: The Man from Oudewater is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jacob Arminius was a Dutch theologian whose views have become the basis of Arminianism and the Dutch Remonstrant movement, and are quite influential on Wesleyan, and therefore Methodist, theology as well. Arminius attempted to reform Reformed theology and ended up lending his name to a movement that resisted some of the primary tenets of Calvinism. Rustin E. Brian outlines the life and theology...

published in 1598 and again in 1599 due to its popularity. Perkins’s topic was predestination, which he hoped to present in a more preferable way than did Calvin. In reality, though, he ended up articulating the sort of supralapsarianism found in Beza and Calvin’s other prominent followers of the day. Central to Arminius’s examination is his view that biblical predestination has a christological framework. That is, predestination concerns humans as sinners, and is determined through Christ.8 Predestination
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