If you cannot see the player above follow this link: Remonstrance Episode 65 In this series of episodes we will be discussing the Synod of Dort again along with the events that followed it. To…

If you cannot see the player above follow this link: Remonstrance Episode 65 In this series of episodes we will be discussing the Synod of Dort again along with the events that followed it. To…
If you cannot see the player above follow this link: The Synod of Dort Revisited (Part 1) In this series of episodes we will be discussing the Synod of Dort again along with the events…
If you cannot see the player above follow this link: Episode 58 In this episode we will continue discussing the Synod of Dort which took place from 1618-1619 and led to the “condemnation” of Arminianism…
On January 14th, 1610, several theologians met in the Hague to issue forth a statement of protest against the established order of the Reformed Church. This statement became a simple remonstrance, stating for clarification 5…
Sebastian Castellio is one of the great forgotten men of the Reformation. A brilliant scholar and thinker considered by many the greatest mind in Geneva, yet he was the only minister in Geneva during Calvin’s…
If you cannot see the player above follow this link to the episode: Remonstrance Episode #5 In this episode we ask the very important question, “What Does It Mean to Be Arminian?” Historically, there have…
If you can’t see the player above just follow this link to listen to this episode: Remonstrance Episode 1 This is our first full length episode of Remonstrance Podcast! On this episode we discuss the five…
If you can’t see the player above just follow this link to listen to this episode: Remonstrance Minisode 4 In this minisode we will be looking at the life of the Arminian pastor, statesman, and theologian:…
One of the most frustrating aspects for the followers1 of Jacob Arminius’ teachings on God’s nature, character, salvation — including grace, election unto salvation, justification and conditional perseverance with an accompanying final or ultimate salvation…
After the death of Arminius, anti-Arminian Calvinists become emboldened, which merely attests to the place of prominence granted Arminius within his own lifetime: with Arminius still alive, the anti-Arminians find lording their doctrines over the…
Luis Henrique asked the director of the Arminius Instituut of the VU University of Amsterdam, Bert Dicou, to translate portions of the original Act of Remonstrance (1610) that are not normally translated. They have been combined…
To listen to an audio of the Remonstrance of 1610 in English, visit this post at the site of Simon Kittle.
After the death of Arminius in 1609 the Remonstrants petition the States for protection and safe conduct. Why? Why would the early Arminians fear for their physical safety? By the era of Arminius’ death in…
If not for the early Dutch Reformed Arminians rejecting five tenets of Calvinistic ideology, there would be no TULIP today, as TULIP is merely a reaction to Arminian theology. After the death of Arminius, in…
Nearly a decade after the death of Arminius, the States General hold a synod (council or assembly), wherein religious and state officials from various regions accuse the Arminians of heresy and expel them from both pulpit ministry and teaching theology in Holland (read “Dutch Calvinists against Religious Freedom: Synod of Dort“). The result of the Synod of Dort comes to us in the Canons of Dort. (“Canons” refer to a Rule of Decrees or Judgments.) Therein are statements of affirmation and denial of various subjects, both theological and soteriological (i.e., doctrine of salvation).
This is the Latin text of the incomplete systematic theology of Arminius’ greatest student and leader of the Remonstrants at Dort, Simon Episcopius. Opera Theologica
Arminian Confession of 1621 and Apostasy – an article about the Remonstrants’ position on the possibility of apostasy. Click on the pdf to view Arminian Confession of 1621 and Apostasy
“The Remonstrants clearly were not Pelagians.” You would think that such a statement comes from the lips or pen of an Arminian scholar or pastor, but it originally came from Reformed Baptist scholar Mark A….
Shortly after the death of James Arminius in 1609, his followers summarized his views into the five points of the remonstrants. At Dort, the Calvinists requested a clarification of the remonstrants views. Lead by Episcopius,…
On the benefits and promises of God, and principally of election to grace, or calling to faith. “1. But that man may not just perform the commandments of God thus far explained, but also willingly…