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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...

questions typically drives them toward either a version of free will or else determinism (each with many different “flavors”). Some attempt to navigate this admittedly difficult terrain through modified positions such as God’s middle knowledge (or Molinism—that God knows not only what one will choose but what one would choose). Or, they try to hold both systems together in what is often known as compatibilism (that human free will and determinism are compatible). Arminius is often accused of these
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