Remonstrants

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The Remonstrants were a 17th-century Dutch Protestant movement that opposed strict Calvinist predestination by advocating a more free-will-oriented, Arminian theology.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arminian movement
Christian denomination
Protestant movement
alsoKnownAs Remonstrants
surface form: Remonstrant Brotherhood

Remonstrant Reformed Church
condemnedAt Synod of Dort
condemnedInYear 1619
coreBelief God desires the salvation of all people
human response to grace is not irresistibly determined
countryOfOrigin Dutch Republic
currentName Remonstrant Reformed Church
surface form: Remonstrant Church
emphasizesDoctrine conditional election
free will
possibility of falling from grace
resistible grace
universal atonement
experienced persecution after the Synod of Dort
foundedInCentury 17th century
foundedInYear 1610
foundingDocument Five Articles of the Remonstrance
surface form: Remonstrance of 1610
hasClergyType ordained ministers
hasPolity congregational
headquartersLocation Netherlands
historicalStatus religious minority in the Dutch Republic
influenced Methodism
Arminianism
surface form: Wesleyan Arminianism
keyFigure Hugo Grotius
Jacobus Arminius
Johannes Uytenbogaert
Simon Episcopius
languageOfWorship Dutch
laterGained legal toleration in the Netherlands
mainClassification Protestantism
opposedBy Counter-Remonstrants
surface form: Contra-Remonstrants
opposedDoctrine strict Calvinist predestination
originatedAs protest against Dutch Reformed Church orthodoxy
originatedIn Netherlands
practices Holy Eucharist
surface form: Lord's Supper

baptism
regardsTextAsAuthoritative New Testament
Bible
surface form: Old Testament
religiousTradition Reformed churches
surface form: Reformed Christianity
resultedIn A Display of Arminianism
surface form: Arminian–Calvinist controversy
scripture Bible
separatedFrom Dutch Reformed Church
theologicalOrientation Arminianism

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Jacobus Arminius influenced Remonstrants
Five Articles of the Remonstrance associatedMovement Remonstrants
this entity surface form: Remonstrant Brotherhood
Five Articles of the Remonstrance denominationalUse Remonstrants
this entity surface form: Remonstrant churches
Ordinum Hollandiae ac Westfrisiae pietas relatedTo Remonstrants
this entity surface form: Remonstrant controversy in Holland
Fifth Head of Doctrine opposesGroup Remonstrants
Maria van Reigersberch movement Remonstrants
this entity surface form: Remonstrant milieu
Hugo de Groot religion Remonstrants
this entity surface form: Remonstrant
Gomarists opposed Remonstrants
Counter-Remonstrants opposed Remonstrants
Declaration of Sentiments religiousMovement Remonstrants
subject surface form: Declaration of Sentiments (Arminius)
this entity surface form: Arminian movement in the Dutch Republic
Remonstrants alsoKnownAs Remonstrants
this entity surface form: Remonstrant Brotherhood
Article on human depravity and prevenient grace hasTheologicalTradition Remonstrants
this entity surface form: Remonstrantism
Simon Episcopius movement Remonstrants
this entity surface form: Remonstrant Brotherhood
Simon Episcopius movement Remonstrants
Johannes Uytenbogaert movement Remonstrants
this entity surface form: Remonstrant Brotherhood
Jakob Hermanszoon influenced Remonstrants
this entity surface form: Remonstrant Brotherhood
Els Borst religion Remonstrants
this entity surface form: Remonstrantism
de Groot religion Remonstrants
subject surface form: Hugo de Groot
this entity surface form: Remonstrant