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Remonstrants
Remonstrants , Dutch Protestants, adherents to the ideas of Jacobus Arminius , whose doctrines after his death (1609) were called Arminianism. They were Calvinists but were more liberal and less dogmatic than orthodox Calvinists and diverged from the teachings of the Dutch Reformed Church. After the death of Arminius and under the leadership of Simon Episcopius , they set forth their articles of faith for Holland and West Friesland in a petition that became known as the Remonstrance. Their main variations from orthodox views, as set forth, were conditional, rather than absolute, predestination; universal atonement; the necessity of regeneration through the Holy Ghost; the possibility of resistance to divine grace; and the possibility of relapse from grace. A movement to suppress the Remonstrants was led by Franciscus Gomarus and Prince Maurice of Nassau , and finally, after a hearing at the Synod of Dort (1618–19), the orthodox position prevailed. Remonstrants were denied church services, and their leaders were persecuted and exiled. With the death of Prince Maurice in 1625 the ban was lifted and the religion was tolerated until 1795, when it was recognized as an independent church. The Remonstrants survive as a small group in the Netherlands. They have had a liberalizing influence on Calvinist doctrine as well as on other evangelical churches. |
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"Remonstrants." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Remonstrants." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Remonstr.html "Remonstrants." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Remonstr.html |
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Remonstrance
Remonstrance, the ‘loyal formulary of Irish remonstrance’, a statement in the name of the Catholics of Ireland acknowledging Charles II as lawful king, to be obeyed under pain of sin, any papal claims to the contrary notwithstanding. Drafted by Richard Bellings in December 1661, the Remonstrance was supported by leading laymen anxious to secure their position in the Restoration land settlement, but opposed by a large majority among the clergy. Ormond, as lord lieutenant, actively encouraged the minority of Remonstrants while harassing their opponents. In June 1666 he permitted a meeting of Catholic clergy in Dublin to consider the declaration, but rejected its offer of an alternative formula (later condemned by Rome) repudiating the pope's temporal authority. The controversy reopened the divisions on the relationship between religious and political loyalties that had arisen during the Confederate War, the continuity being reinforced by the involvement of Peter Walsh as a leading supporter of the Remonstrance and Edmund O'Reilly as an opponent. As in the 1640s it was generally Old English Catholics that were most ready to seek an accommodation with the crown, although in this case even many Old English clergy, like Oliver Plunkett, were strongly opposed to the Remonstrance.
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"Remonstrance." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Remonstrance." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-Remonstrance.html "Remonstrance." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-Remonstrance.html |
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Remonstrance, the
Remonstrance, the. The statement of Arminian doctrine drawn up at Gouda in 1610. It contains the celebrated five articles, taken from J. Arminius' Declaratio Sententiae of 1608, which summarized the Remonstrants' doctrine and set the agenda for the ensuing controversies. It repudiated both the Supralapsarian and Sublapsarian form of predestination, the doctrine that Christ died only for the elect, and the notion that, for the latter, grace was both irresistible and indefectible. The Remonstrants were condemned at the Synod of Dort (1618–19).
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Remonstrance, the." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Remonstrance, the." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-Remonstrancethe.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Remonstrance, the." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-Remonstrancethe.html |
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remonstrance
re·mon·strance / riˈmänstrəns/ • n. a forcefully reproachful protest: angry remonstrances in the Senate | he shut his ears to any remonstrance. ∎ (the Remonstrance) a document drawn up in 1610 by the Arminians of the Dutch Reformed Church, presenting the differences between their doctrines and those of the strict Calvinists. |
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"remonstrance." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "remonstrance." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-remonstrance.html "remonstrance." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-remonstrance.html |
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Remonstrants
Remonstrants. See resolutions.
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JOHN CANNON. "Remonstrants." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Remonstrants." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-Remonstrants.html JOHN CANNON. "Remonstrants." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-Remonstrants.html |
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