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Jacobus Arminius
Oudewater, Seventeen Provinces
Archival Overview
Dutch Reformed theologian and professor at Leiden University whose challenge to strict Calvinist predestination founded Arminianism, affirming human free will and conditional election.
Biographical Record
Jacobus Arminius (1559–1609 CE) studied in Geneva under Theodore Beza before becoming pastor in Amsterdam and professor of theology at the University of Leiden.
His biblical studies led him to reject supralapsarian double predestination, proposing that God's grace is resistible and that Christ died for all humanity, beliefs codified by his followers in the Five Articles of Remonstrance.
Key Life Milestones
Appointed Professor of Theology at Leiden
Assumed the theological chair at Leiden, triggering the great Dutch debates on divine sovereignty and free will.
Declaration of Sentiments
Delivered his 'Declaratio Sententiae' before the States of Holland, expounding his biblical doctrine of universal atonement.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialLeiden, Netherlands