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John Davenant and the Synod of Dordt
2021Abstract This chapter has as its focus the British delegation’s role in the formation of the Second Main Doctrine—on the extent of Christ’s atoning work—at the Synod of Dordt. After expositing a couple of key documents by James Ussher and John Overall, the chapter carefully inspects and summarizes never-before-studied manuscripts tracing
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The Synod Of Dordt On Arminian Anthropology
2011In the fall of 1618 Festus Hommius, an influential Reformed minister at Leiden, published a book that was meant to provide delegates at the future Synod of Dordt with a documented survey of the controversial issues of the day. Arminian anthropology was certainly an issue over which notable disagreements existed at the time.
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Revisiting the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619)
2011The Synod of Dordt (1618-1619), the international assembly which ended the years-long dispute between Arminians and Calvinists, was a defining event in Dutch history. This collected volume presents new facts and analyses concerning the Synod, its context, and its legacy.
Goudriaan, A (Anna), van Lieburg, F
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James Ussher’s Influence On The Synod Of Dordt
2011Archbishop James Ussher is today perhaps most well known for his 1654 groundbreaking work in biblical chronology, entitled The Annals of the World . Usshers towering theological influence on the seventeenth-century church flowed out from his formidable scholarly attainments, and has been widely recognised by both his contemporaries and modern scholars
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A Promise for Parents: Dordt’s Perspective on Covenant and Election
2013This chapter traces the historical career of Article 17 and then briefly examines its theological core and its biblical character. The discussion of the salvation of infants became serious in the Netherlands ten years before the Synod of Dordt. It arose as part of the growing criticism directed against the Dutch theologian and Leiden professor, Jacobus
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Popular And Catholic: The Modus Docendi Of The Canons Of Dordt
2011This chapter examines sources for and the character of the Canons of Dordt as doctrinal teaching that is popular and catholic. A comparison of the Palatinate Modus docendi with the Canons of the First Head of Doctrine shows significant similarities in vocabulary, doctrine, topics and order of discussion.
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Calvin and the Canons of Dordt (1619)
Church History and Religious Culture, 2011Despite the fact that the so-called “Five Points of Calvinism” are based on the five main points of the Canons of Dordt, it is misleading to assume that these five points are drawn directly from Calvin. The documents of the Synod of Dordt rarely refer to any theological source, including Calvin.
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