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arminian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arminian \Ar*min"i*an\ (?; 277), a. Of or pertaining to Arminius of his followers, or to their doctrines. See note under Arminian, n.
Arminian \Ar*min"i*an\, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609). Note: The Arminian doctrines are:
Conditional election and reprobation, in opposition to absolute predestination.
Universal redemption, or that the atonement was made by Christ for all mankind, though none but believers can be partakers of the benefit.
That man, in order to exercise true faith, must be regenerated and renewed by the operation of the Holy Spirit, which is the gift of God.
That man may resist divine grace.
That man may relapse from a state of grace.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Arminius, Latinized form of the name of James Harmensen (1560-1609), Dutch Protestant theologian who opposed Calvin, especially on the question of predestination. His ideas were denounced at the Synod of Dort, but nonetheless spread in the Reformed churches.
Usage examples of "arminian".
The Arminian priest turns the rationalist over to the penal fires of eternity, because he is in mental error as to the explanation of the Trinity and the Atonement.
Who then would agree to secure him from any taint of Arminian heresy in years to come?
Sects and Professions in Religion are numerous and successive - General effect of false Zeal - Deists - Fanatical Idea of Church Reformers - The Church of Rome - Baptists - Swedenborgians - Univerbalists - Jews - Methodists of two Kinds: Calvinistic and Arminian - The Preaching of a Calvinistic Enthusiast - His contempt of Learning - Dislike to sound Morality: why - His Ideas of Conversion - His Success and Pretensions to Humility.
I shall be pleased to accompany you, purely to ensure that you do not corrupt his morals with your despicable Arminian views.
The existing Arminian regime led by Oldenbarnevelt and Grotius had been overthrown.
Hall, Bishop and satirist, who took an active part in the Arminian and Calvinistic controversy in the English Church, is of particular interest to Norwich, of which he became Bishop in 1641.
Arminian and a hot Arminian that there is between a cold potato and a hot potato.
Church of Holland is now passing through the most important crisis in its history since the Arminian controversy.
Catholic and the Protestant, the Calvinist and the Arminian, the Jew and the Infidel, may sit down at the common table of the national councils without any inquisition into their faith or mode of worship.
He had begun as an Arminian, and the more he had read and thought, and the older he grew to be, the freer views he took.
They contend for a spiritual creed and a spiritual worship: we have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy.
This house of commons, which, like all the preceding, during the reigns of James and Charles, and even of Elizabeth, was much governed by the Puritanical party, thought that they could not better serve their cause than by branding and punishing the Arminian sect, which, introducing an innovation in the church, were the least favored and least powerful of all their antagonists.
Ecclesiastically and doctrinally they stood in the open, while Romanist and Protestant, Anglican and Puritan, Calvinist and Arminian waged bitter war, filling the air with angry maledictions.
English Presbyterian divine, was born of Huguenot descent in Walbrook, London, in February 1600, and educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where his opposition to the Arminian party, then powerful in that society, excluded him from a fellowship.
Livorno ship was announced in the street and I was glad to get out, anticipating spending a little time in gentle disputation with the Arminians on my way.