However, it is not only in Roman Catholicism that synergism plays a role. The Reformation, too, was confronted with a profound problem when it sought the connection between the function of man’s freedom and responsibility, and the doctrine of election. The Reformation met with questions similar to those in Roman Catholic theology. We think especially of the Remonstrants in their opposition to the Reformed doctrine of election. They wanted to account for the significance of man’s freedom and activity