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Arminianism

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Arminianism: see Arminius, Jacobus Arminianism, was not yet fully developed, but he asserted the compatibility of divine sovereignty with human freedom, denied John Calvin's doctrine of irresistible grace , and thus modified the strict conception of predestination.
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Jonathan Edwards believed his revival work to be a corrective to Arminianism, which he regarded as doctrinal error.
Under the further assumption that this Franeker professor allowed his likely confessional and political prise deposition in favor of Arminianism to become publicly known, we have a new, or at least an additional, explanation for why his removal from office occurred in 1609.
But even here the sixteenth-century Reformers didn't have the last word, as can be seen by later qualifications by Lutheran Pietists and Wesley's Arminianism.
 
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