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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...

study. The most thorough and helpful biography of Jacob Arminius is Carl Bangs’s classic, Arminius: A Study in the Dutch Reformation. Bangs’s book is the gold standard for biographical work on Arminius and is surely the next stop for anyone desiring further knowledge about the life of Arminius. A much more recent book, Jacob Arminius: Theologian of Grace, written by Keith D. Stanglin and Thomas H. McCall, provides a wonderfully detailed and well-written summary of Arminius’s basic theological positions.
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