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- 17th century theology (named after its founder Jacobus Arminius) that opposes the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin and holds that human free will is compatible with God's sovereignty
How To Use Arminianism In A Sentence
- 'Arminianism', as it was then understood in England: 'most of the popular preachers, who had not looked into the ancient learning, took Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
- TOG, read my post further down about will vs. free will, choice and metaphysics. this verse is basically commanding believers not to fall away in unbelief. but how does it support Arminianism, or free will theology (if you refuse to be called Arminian)? the ability not to fall away comes from God anyway ( Pulpit Pimps
- Kate, The third sentence in your second paragraph is the view of Arminianism; Calvinism takes a different view on that. Why I am not a Calvinist « Anglican Samizdat
- So while Arminianism offers us a spurious universalism, which is at best a universalism of opportunity, Calvinism offers us the true universalism in the salvation of the race. The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
- Furthermore, it would seem that a system such as Arminianism, which suspends salvation on a personal act of rational choice, would logically demand that those dying in infancy must either be given another period of probation after death, in order that their destiny may be fixed, or that they must be annihilated. The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
- Now, in light of your criticism of "Arminianism", or what ever it is, could you please explain: Pulpit Pimps
- So far as can be collected from the imperfect account we have of the circumstances of the case, Dr. Strang discovered, it was imagined, a bias to Arminianism, whereas he seems to have been merely more of a sublapsarian than a supralapsarian. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
- So far as the new spirit influenced doctrines, it was called Arminianism, the technical theological name for democracy in religion at this time. Unitarianism in America
- From the same causes, by natural sequence, came that so-called Arminianism A History of American Christianity
- It was to revise and redefine the national creed, after its long lapse into so-called Arminianism and semi-popish error, and to advise also as to the new system of church government and the new forms of worship that should come in place of rejected episcopacy and the condemned liturgy. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
