Simon Episcopius

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Simon Episcopius was a leading Dutch Remonstrant theologian and successor to Jacobus Arminius, known for systematizing and defending Arminian theology against strict Calvinism in the early 17th century.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Dutch person
Remonstrant
human
theologian
afterEvent return to the Netherlands following the fall of Maurice of Nassau’s regime
birthDate 1583-01-08
birthName Simon Bisschop
birthPlace Amsterdam
County of Holland
Dutch Republic
consequenceOfEvent banishment from the Dutch Republic after the Synod of Dort
deathDate 1643-04-04
deathPlace Amsterdam
educatedAt University of Leiden
exileLocation Antwerp
France
Rouen
givenName Simon
influenced Remonstrant Church doctrine
later Arminian theologians
influencedBy Jacobus Arminius
knownFor defending Remonstrant theology
leadership of the Remonstrants
systematizing Arminian theology
language Dutch
Latin
movement Remonstrants
surface form: Remonstrant Brotherhood

Remonstrants
nationality Dutch
nativeName Simon Bisschop
notableWork Five Articles of the Remonstrance
surface form: Confessio sive Declaratio Sententiae Pastorum qui in Foederato Belgio Remonstrantes Vocantur

Institutiones theologicae
occupation theologian
university professor
opposedTo strict Calvinism
supralapsarian Calvinism
participantIn Synod of Dort
positionHeld professor of theology at the University of Leiden
rector of the Remonstrant Seminary in Amsterdam
religiousTradition Arminianism
Protestantism
returnedTo Amsterdam
role Remonstrant spokesman at the Synod of Dort
studentOf Jacobus Arminius
theologicalPosition defense of human free will in salvation
emphasis on conditional election
rejection of unconditional reprobation
theologicalTradition Arminian theology

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