Counter-Remonstrants

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The Counter-Remonstrants were a strict Calvinist faction in the Dutch Republic that opposed the more liberal Arminian Remonstrants in the early 17th-century religious and political conflicts.

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Surface form Occurrences
Dutch Calvinists 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Calvinist faction
political faction
religious movement
activeIn Dutch Republic
alignedWith orthodox Reformed clergy
approximateStartDate circa 1610
confessionalOutcome Canons of Dort
consideredOpponentsAs Remonstrants
coreBelief absolute sovereignty of God in salvation
authority of Reformed confessions
country Dutch Republic
emergedAfter Five Articles of the Remonstrance
surface form: Remonstrant petition of 1610
hadSupportFrom Maurice of Nassau
Prince Maurice of Orange
historicalContext Dutch Golden Age
Eighty Years' War
influenced Dutch Reformed Church
Reformed confessional standards
influencedDecision Canons of Dort
involvedIn Synod of Dort
surface form: Arminian–Gomarist controversy

political conflicts in the Dutch Republic
religious conflicts in the Dutch Republic
keyEvent Synod of Dort
language Dutch
legacy formation of classic five points of Calvinism
opposed Arminianism
Remonstrants
opposedPoliticalLeader Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
region Holland
Zeeland NERFINISHED
rejectedDoctrine conditional election
possibility of falling from grace
universal atonement as taught by Arminians
religiousOrientation Calvinism
religiousTradition Reformed
resultedIn marginalization of Remonstrants after Synod of Dort
sawOpponentsAs innovators in doctrine
sawThemselvesAs defenders of orthodox Calvinism
socialBase many urban orthodox congregations in Holland
supported calling of the Synod of Dort
supportedDoctrine irresistible grace
perseverance of the saints
total depravity
unconditional election
theologicalPosition strict predestinarianism
supralapsarian or high Calvinism
timePeriod early 17th century
usedCatechism Heidelberg Catechism
usedConfession Belgic Confession

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Gomarists category Counter-Remonstrants
this entity surface form: Dutch Calvinists
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt opposedBy Counter-Remonstrants