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Definition of Jacobus Arminius
1. Noun. Dutch Protestant theologian who founded Arminianism which opposed the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin (1559-1609).
Generic synonyms: Theologian, Theologiser, Theologist, Theologizer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jacobus Arminius
Literary usage of Jacobus Arminius
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1829)
"They take their name from a Dutchman, whose name was Jacobus Van Harmin, which
turned into Latin, is called Jacobus Arminius ; and from his name the whole ..."
2. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829)
"They take their name from a Dutchman, whose name was Jacobus Van Harmin, which
turned into Latin, is called Jacobus Arminius; and from his name the whole ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Consult 'J. Ar- minni Opera Theologica' (Leyden 1629), 'The Works of Arminius' (English
translation, Buffalo 1853) ; and Nichols, <Life of Jacobus Arminius* ..."
4. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"... obtained from the Curators of the University in 1602 the nomination of Jacobus
Arminius, for many years ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"... obtained from the Curators of the University in 1602 the nomination of Jacobus
Arminius, for many years ..."
6. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1831)
"James Arminius, (called in Latin, Jacobus Arminius, and in Dutch, Jacob Hermanni
or Van Harmine,) was born in 1560, at Oudewater, a small but pleasant and ..."