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The Federal Motif in Seventeenth Century Arminian Theology

The Federal Motif in Seventeenth Century Arminian Theology THE FEDERAL MOTIF IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ARMINIAN THEOLOGY by RICHARD A. MULLER Pasadena Arminian theology in the seventeenth century, as represented by a series of important thinkers-Arminius, Grotius, Episcopius, Cur- cellaeus, and Limborch-has not yet received full-scale analysis at the hands of historians of Christian doctrine, either in a synthetic study of its teachings and tendencies or in a survey of its theological development. On the whole, scholarship has presented the thought of the "orthodox" or "scholastic" period of Protestantism in terms of its great polemical issues, such as the debate over predestination in the Reformed Churches leading up to the Synod of Dort or the problem of growing rigidity of system as reflected in the pietist complaint or the question of the relationship of or- thodoxy to rationalism' . Emphasis on these issues has obscured the magnitude of the Arminian challenge to Reformed orthodoxy and the doc- trinal richness of the Arminian system in its seventeenth century develop- ment. By the beginning of the seventeenth century, early Reformed orthodoxy had produced a fairly comprehensive summation of doctrine, an enclosed system of theology in opposition to both Rome and Lutheranism in which no major locus of doctrine could http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis (in 2006 continued as Church History and Religious Culture) Brill

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© 1982 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0028-2030
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1871-2401
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10.1163/002820382X00069
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THE FEDERAL MOTIF IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ARMINIAN THEOLOGY by RICHARD A. MULLER Pasadena Arminian theology in the seventeenth century, as represented by a series of important thinkers-Arminius, Grotius, Episcopius, Cur- cellaeus, and Limborch-has not yet received full-scale analysis at the hands of historians of Christian doctrine, either in a synthetic study of its teachings and tendencies or in a survey of its theological development. On the whole, scholarship has presented the thought of the "orthodox" or "scholastic" period of Protestantism in terms of its great polemical issues, such as the debate over predestination in the Reformed Churches leading up to the Synod of Dort or the problem of growing rigidity of system as reflected in the pietist complaint or the question of the relationship of or- thodoxy to rationalism' . Emphasis on these issues has obscured the magnitude of the Arminian challenge to Reformed orthodoxy and the doc- trinal richness of the Arminian system in its seventeenth century develop- ment. By the beginning of the seventeenth century, early Reformed orthodoxy had produced a fairly comprehensive summation of doctrine, an enclosed system of theology in opposition to both Rome and Lutheranism in which no major locus of doctrine could

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Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis (in 2006 continued as Church History and Religious Culture) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1982

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