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Arminianism

DEFINITIONS OF: Arminianism

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n 17th century theology (named after its founder Jacobus Arminius) that opposes the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin and holds that human free will is compatible with God's sovereignty

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Protestantism
the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation
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