Synod of Dordt Part 7: The Remonstrants

While the war with Spain had been waged across the Netherlands, another war had been quietly simmering in the background. Jacobus Arminius, a professor at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, had been promoting a theology that opposed the five points of Calvinism. When Arminius died in 1609, the same year as the truce with Spain, his followers began to push his theology on a broader scale. Freed from the warfare with Spain, the Remonstrants, as Arminius’ followers were called,...