Arminianism
the doctrine of Arminius, a Protestant divine, who maintained that God had predestinated the salvation or condemnation of individuals only from having foreseen who would and who would not accept of offered mercy. After the death of Arminius by the Calvinists. his followers rapidly increased, and were vehemently attacked by In 1610, they addressed a petition to the states of Holland for protection, from which they got the name of Remonstrants. The Calvinists put forth a Calvinists put forth counter remonstrance, and, in 1614, the , and, in 1614, states issued an edict granting full toleration to both parties. This displeased the Calvinists, who continued their pera ARMINIANISM secutions, and at length, in 1619, the doctrines of the Arminians were condemned by the Synod of Dort, and their clergy were driven from their churches, and forbidden the exercise of their min- HOLLAND BOCHOLT EMMERICH WESEL BELGIANS MEUSE RIVER BELGIUM * CREFELD MUNCHEN- GLADBACH ARMINIUS dwindled to a small body, but their tenets, especially regarding predestination, have been adopted by various other denominations, as the Wesleyan Methodists.
MÜNSTER RECHLINGSHAUSEN GELSENKIRCHEN DUISBURG DORTMUND UNNA BOCHUM RUHR RIV.
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