Amyraldianism and the Formula Consensus Helvetica (1675)
Rev. Angus Stewart provides a critical examination of Amyraldianism, the hypothetical universalism theology promoted by Moise Amyraut in 17th-century France, demonstrating how it deviated from Calvin, the Canons of Dort, and Reformed orthodoxy. The article traces how Amyraut's convoluted system of conditional election and atonement represented a dangerous slide toward Arminianism and serves as a cautionary historical example of theological error within the Reformed tradition.
Rev. Angus Stewart Amyraldianism is that false system of theology introduced by and named after Moise Amyraut (1596-1664), Professor in the French Protestant Seminary at Saumur. It may sound like an old and foreign error but it is being actively promoted in the British Isles and elsewhere today. Amyraut promulgated and popularised a form of hypothetical universalism, that hypothetically God chose everyone to salvation and sent Christ to die for all absolutely. Amyraut taught hypothetical...