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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...

are plain and clear. Still, for Arminius there are various levels of meaning to Scripture, and learned study is advised to faithfully interpret and teach it. The basic meaning of Scripture regarding the nature of God and how we might be saved is, however, clearly understandable in a literal sense. Third, Arminius’s method of biblical interpretation was christologically driven. Arminius is often described as a theologian of grace. This is indeed an apt description. It must be remembered, though, that
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