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Arminius, Arminianism, and Europe: Jacobus Arminius (1559/60-1609)
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Arminius, Arminianism, and Europe: Jacobus Arminius (1559/60-1609) Hardcover - 2009

by Th Marius Van Leeuwen (Volume Editor); Keith D. Stanglin (Volume Editor); Marijke Tolsma (Volume Editor)

From the publisher

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

From the rear cover

19 October 2009 marked the 400th anniversary of the death of Jacobus Arminius in Leiden. He was esteemed for the way in which he sought a via media between strict Calvinism and a more humanistic variant of Christian belief. However, because of his deviation from mainstream Calvinism, he has also been violently attacked. Was he a pioneer, who enriched the Reformed tradition by opening it towards new horizons, or a heretic, who founded a new tradition, as an alternative to Reformed theology? The day of the death of this remarkable theologian was commemorated with a conference at Leiden University on Arminius, Aminianism, and Europe (9 and 10 October 2009). The main contributions to that conference are collected in this book. The first part contains some essays on the thinking of Arminius himself: the structure of his theology, his relation to Augustine, and to Rome. The second part deals with Arminianism. Was it influenced by Socinianism, as its opponents often claimed? How was it received in Europe: in Germany, Switzerland (Geneva), England, and Ireland? How far did Arminianism prepare the way for the ideals of the Enlightenment, which made its entry later on in the seventeenth century? An extensive iconography of Jacobus Arminius and an annotated bibliography of all his known writings complete, in the third part, this volume.

Details

  • Title Arminius, Arminianism, and Europe: Jacobus Arminius (1559/60-1609)
  • Author Th Marius Van Leeuwen (Volume Editor); Keith D. Stanglin (Volume Editor); Marijke Tolsma (Volume Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 324
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date 2009
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9789004178878 / 9004178872
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.9 in (24.38 x 16.26 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Dewey Decimal Code 284.909

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2010, Page 31

About the author

Th. Marius van Leeuwen is Professor at the Remonstrant Seminary (Institute for Religious Studies, Leiden University). He holds a Ph.D. from Leiden University (The surplus of meaning. Ontology and eschatology in the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, (Rodopi 1981). Van Leeuwen authored several books and articles on biblical hermeneutics, liturgy, the Christian year, the history of the Remonstrant Brotherhood, and ecumenism.

Keith D. Stanglin, Ph.D. (2006) in Historical Theology, Calvin Theological Seminary, is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Harding University. He has published Arminius on the Assurance of Salvation: The Context, Roots, and Shape of the Leiden Debate, 1603-1609 (Brill, 2007), as well as several articles on the history of theology. He specializes in Reformation and Post-Reformation theology.

Marijke Tolsma is art historian and coordinator at the Remonstrant Seminary, Institute for Religious Studies, Leiden University. She publishes mainly on seventeenth-century art, related to religious subjects. She published Prachtig Protestant (Waanders, 2008), and contributed in Jane Turner (ed.), The Grove Dictionary of Art (Oxford University Press, 2000).

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