Ar·min·i·an

(är-mĭn′ē-ən)

adj.

Of or relating to the theology of Jacobus Arminius and his followers, who rejected the Calvinist doctrines of predestination and election and who believed that human free will is compatible with God's sovereignty.

Ar·min′i·an n.

Ar·min′i·an·ism n.

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Arminian

(ɑːˈmɪnɪən)

adj

(Theology) denoting, relating to, or believing in the Christian Protestant doctrines of Jacobus Arminius, published in 1610, which rejected absolute predestination and insisted that the sovereignty of God is compatible with free will in man. These doctrines deeply influenced Wesleyan and Methodist theology

(Theology) a follower of such doctrines

Arˈminianˌism n

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John Overall's articles were a Jacobean novelty, though in method they may owe something to Bickley's 1586 articles for Chichester: the 1619 set became the model Arminian version, and swamped its rivals.

Visitation Articles and Injunctions of the Early Stuart Church, vol. I

Such historians as Peter Lake and Kenneth Fincham have been looking afresh at the leadership of the Jacobean church, and clarifying its nature.(2) They confirm and proceed beyond the findings of Charles and Katherine George, Patrick Collinson, and Nicholas Tyacke that the church under James remained basically Calvinistic.(3) Fincham, for example, reports that only about eight of James's sixty-six bishops could be called Arminian (293).

Preaching pastor versus custodian of order: Donne, Andrewes, and the Jacobean church

And at various points it reconciles Arminian thesis and antinomian antithesis into a synthesis that at once invites to exhilarating liberation and challenges to disciplined focus and exertion.

K.P. Van Anglen, The New England Milton: Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the Early Republic

Calvinist and Arminian conversion motifs differentiated Baptists from the start.

Rebirth pangs: conflicting conversion morphologies in Baptist believers' churches

At the heart of the matter of Caroline censorship, Clegg argues in her second chapter, was the impact of religious controversy in 1625-29, provoked by changes within the Church of England urged by Arminian clergy.

Press Censorship in Caroline England

John's College, Oxford, and Lady Margaret professor of divinity, a position he gained in 1715 by election in competition with an Arminian churchman.

Anti-Arminians: The Anglican Reformed Tradition from Charles II to George I

Indeed it can be, and has been, argued that Anglicanism as a separate theological tradition did not exist until the early seventeenth century, when the initial Calvinism of the English Reformation was supplanted by the Arminian theology of the Caroline divines.

Glorious Companions: Five Centuries of Anglican Spirituality

In 1946, historian George Levy wrote The Baptists of the Maritime Provinces, 1753-1946 to help his denomination celebrate its fortieth anniversary as a union of Arminian and Calvinistic Baptists.

Maritime Baptist union and the power of regionalism

Control over ecclesiastical licensing was slowly wrested from the Calvinist Archbishop Abbot by the anti-Calvinist Bishop of Durham, Richard Neile, and his Arminian circle at Durham House, which effectively replaced Calvinist print-based disputation with a rhetoric of silence that hardened into state practice under Laud in the 1630s.

Press Censorship in Jacobean England