Arminian Heritage

The Post-Reformation Digital Library

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Please  click on the link to access The Post-Reformation Digital Library website. A description from the website: “The Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) is a select database of digital books relating to the development of theology and…

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Susanna Wesley on Predestination

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The following is from a letter written by Susanna Wesley to her son John. This quotation has been taken from John Kirk, The Mother of the Wesleys: A Biography (London: Henry James Tresidder, 1864), 284-86. Explanatory…

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Roger Olson, “Is Arminianism ‘Reformed?'”

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A minor controversy exists among Arminian scholars (and some non-Arminian Reformed scholars have chimed in) about whether classical Arminianism can legitimately lay claim to being part of the Reformed theological tradition. The question is this:…

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Arminius on the use of the moral law

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This information is provided by SEA member, Roy Ingle IV. The uses of the moral law are various, according to the different conditions of man. (1.) The primary use, and that which was of itself…

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Why I Am An Arminian
Part III: History

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Many Calvinists claim that they represent historical orthodoxy. However, I believe that the opposite is true. In this post I intend to traverse Christian history and tease out, on a very basic and incomplete level,…

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Roger Olson, “My Response to Two Books about Arminius”

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Response to W. Stephen Gunter, Arminius and His Declaration of Sentiments and Keith D. Stanglin and Thomas H. McCall, Jacob Arminius: Theologian of Grace Roger E. Olson             These two books are significant contributions to what I call the…

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Arminius on the Word of God

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this post is provided by SEA member, Roy Ingle DISPUTATION V ON THE RULE OF RELIGION, THE WORD OF GOD, AND THE SCRIPTURES IN PARTICULAR I. As religion is the duty of man towards God,…

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Arminian Timeline

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Date Remonstrant Anglican/Methodist Baptist 1600’s James Arminius (1560-1609) Theologian and leader of the opposition of Calvinism in Amsterdam and Leiden   Jan Uytenbogaert remonstrant led the meeting that produced the 5 Points of the Remonstrants – 1610   Simon Episcopius (1583-1643) –…

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The Arminian Theology of C.S. Lewis

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C.S. Lewis is one of the most widely read Christian writers of the last 100 years. Although he doesn’t seem to have ever directly referenced Arminius or Wesley in his writings, his theology is nonetheless…

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