Arminian Timeline

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) – Arminius’ greatest student and leader of the Remonstrants at Dort – Opra Theologica.

Hugo Grotius (1583
–1645) Imprisoned as a result of Dort.
First to articulate the Governmental Theory of the Atonement in A Defense of the Catholic Faith
Concerning the Satisfaction of Christ.  Commentaries.

Johannes
Arnoldi Corvinus
(1582-1650) – Response
to Peter Molina

Gerardus Vossius (1577-1649) – History
of the Pelagian Controversy

1618
OPINIONS OF THE REMONSTRANTS

The
Arminian Confession 1621

Philip van Limborch
(1633-1712) (A
Complete System, or Body of Divinity)

Peter Baro (1534-1599)

Daniel Tilenus (1563–1633) Bridge
between the Remonstrants and Early English Arminianism.
Convinced of Arminianism by Corvinus and passed that influence to Womock

Laurence Womock (1612–1686) – Author
of the Calvinist Cabinet Unlocked and The
Result of False Principles: or, Error Convicted by its Own Evidence

John Goodwin (1593-1665) Author of Redemption
Redeemed, An
Exposition Romans 9 and a Christian Theology

Lancelot Andrews (1555-1626) – Sermons

John
Smyth (1570-1612) and; Thomas Helwys (1550-1616)– Cofounders
of Baptist Church

The
First Baptist Confession 1611

Standard Confession
(1660)

Thomas
Grantham (1634-1692) General Baptist (Works)

Henry
Denne – General Baptist (d 1661)

1700’s

Edward Bird On The Horrible Decree of
Unconditional Election (1726)

Daniel Whitby
(1638-1726) – His classic work Discourses on the 5 Points
drew famous responses from Calvinists John Gill (The Cause of God and Truth)
and Jonathan Edwards (Inquiry into the Will).

John
Wesley (1703-1791)
Founder of Methodism

Charles
Wesley (1707 –1788)

John Fletcher (1729-1782)Works: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3,

Volume 4

Thomas Coke
(1747-1814)

Joseph Benson (1748-1821)

Dan
Taylor – General Baptist (1738-1816) (Works)

Benjamin
Randall – General Baptist (1749-1808) (Works)

1800’s

Adam Clarke (1762-1832)-
Commentaries

Joseph Sutcliffe
(1762-1856) –Commentaries

Richard Watson
(1781-1833) – His
Theological Institutes is perhaps
the best Methodist Systematic Theology

James Nichols Calvinism and Arminianism Compared (1824)

Thomas William Jenkyn – Extent of the Atonement (1835)

S.G. Burney Atonement (1888)

Nathan Bangs,
(1778 – 1862) – The errors
of Hopkinsianism detected and refuted, A Second
Part

Willbur Fisk (1792 – 1839) – Calvinistic Controversy

Samuel Wakefied (1799-1895) –Christian Theology

Amos Binney (1802-1878) System
of Divinity

Daniel Whedon (1808-1885) The Freedom of the Will.  Commentaries.

Thomas N. Ralston, Elements of Divinity
(1851)

Miner Raymond
(1811-1897)- Systemtaic Theology, Volume
1, Volume
2 and Volume
3

Philip Pugh –Arminianism v.
hyper-Calvinism: 3 letters to S. Cozens(1860)

Thomas O. Summers
(1812-1882)- Commentary
Matthew,
Mark,
Luke

John Miley (1813-1895)

Randolph S. Foster
(1820-1903) Objections to
CALVINISM as it is

William Burt Pope
(1822-1903) Volume
1 and Volume
2 of his Systematic Theology

Daniel Steele (1824-1914) Commentaries on Leviticus,
Numbers, and Deuteronomy,Joshua – 2 Samuel, and John’s Epistles

Benjamin Field
(1827-1869)-

The
Student’s Handbook of Christian Theology

Albert Nash,Perseverance and Apostasy (1871)

Francis Hodgson – The
Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted (1855)

Frédéric Louis Godet
(1812 -1900) Not a Methodist. Commentaries on John
Volume 1, John Volume 2, and Romans

John
McClintock (1814-1870) – Cylopaedia
of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature

Joseph Beet
(1840-1924) Commentary on Romans

Ransom
Dunn – General Baptist – A
Discourse on the Freedom of the Will (1850)

A. D.
Williams – General Baptist (1825 – 1894)

David
Marks – General Baptist (1805-1845)

Jabez Burns – General Baptist
(1805-1876) (Works)

E. Y.
Mullins (1860-1928) wrote Baptist Beliefs and W. T. Conner (1877-1952) – wrote
Christian Doctrine and The Gospel of Redemption. Mullins and Conner did not call themselves Arminians, but they were instrumental in the decline of
Calvinism within the Southern Baptist Convention.