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Definition of Jacob Harmensen

1. Noun. Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609).

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Literary usage of Jacob Harmensen

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1. The Rise of the Dutch Republic by John Lothrop Motley, William Elliot Griffis (1898)
"Jacob Harmensen, whose name in Latin is Arminius, and who was born at Oudewater in 1560, became a declared enemy of the Aristotelian philosophy while he was ..."

2. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"King John of England, 1216, Newark Castle; Jacobus Arminius (Jacob Harmensen), celebrated Butch theologian, 1609 ; Sir Thomas Browne, antiquary and ..."

3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"His Dutch name was Jacob Harmensen. Educated at Marburg, Leyden, and Geneva, He was ordained Doubts as to the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination led to ..."

4. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"His Dutch name was Jacob Harmensen. Educated at Marburg, Leyden, and Geneva, he also visited Rome. He was ordained minister at Amsterdam. ..."

5. The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful (1844)
"... a small town of Holland, through which the little river Issel flows. His real name in Latin was Jacobus Hermanni, which in Dutch is Jacob Harmensen. ..."

6. A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern by John Mackinnon Robertson (1915)
"... name of Jacob Harmensen or van Harmin, 1560-1609, professor of theology at Leyden] was personally a man of great amiability, averse to controversy, ..."

7. A First Sketch of English Literature by Henry Morley (1912)
"Arminius was the Latinised name of Jacob Harmensen, who was born in 1560, at Oudewater, in South Holland, where his father was a councillor. ..."

8. A Popular History of the Church of England: From the Earliest Times to the by William Boyd Carpenter (1900)
"The Calvinist was named after John Calvin, who held high views on predestination. The Arminian was named after Jacob Harmensen (Arminius), a Dutch divine, ..."

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