ACADEMIC ORTHODOXY AND THE ARMINIANIZING
OF AMERICAN THEOLOGY
From the Wesleyan Theological Journal
James E. Hamilton
Asbury College
During the decades immediately before and after 1800 a massive shift began to take place in American theology. The dominant Calvinistic framework gave way and was succeeded by a prevailing Arminianism. So fundamental were the issues of this intellectual revolution and so profound were their implications that the Protestant Reformation has been called by comparison “a negligible theological performance.” 1
