Revisiting the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619)
Series: Brill's series in church history ; v. 49
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden, Netherlands; Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9789004188631
Description: The Synod of Dordt (1618-1619), the international assembly which ended the years-long dispute between Arminians and Calvinists, was a defining event in the history of the Dutch Republic. This collected volume presents new facts and analyses concerning the Synod, its context, and its legacy. It includes contributions on the Synod's international character (Genevan delegation, James Ussher), biased historiography (John Hales and Walter alquanquall), scholasticism (Johannes Maccovius), philosophical ramifications, and Arminian theology. New, manuscript-based details about the formation of the Canons of Dordt are presented. Other papers examine the Canons' ascendency to confessional status, intentional pastoral style, and view on the salvation of infants. Finally, its reception in the Dutch context as reflected in prints and printed works is mapped out. - Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Gisbertus Samuels, a Reformed minister sentenced by the Synod of Zeeland in 1591 for his opinions on predestination / Fred van Lieburg; title: Defense or deviation? : a re-examination of Arminius' motives to deviate from the 'mainstream' Reformed theology / William den Boer; title: Philosophy and the Synod of Dordt : Aristotelianism, humanism, and the case against Arminianism / Henri A. Krop; title: The Synod of Dordt on Arminian anthropology / Aza Goudriaan; title: The petitions of 'a supposed prophetesse' : the Lübeck letters of Anna Walker and their significance for the Synod of Dordt / Jürgen Beyer, Leigh T.I. Penman; title: A distorting mirror : the Hales and Balcanquahall letters and the Synod of Dordt / Anthony Milton; title: James Ussher's influence on the Synod of Dordt / Jonathan D. Moore; title: "The Canons of the Synod had shot off the advocate's head" : a reappraisal of the Genevan delegation at the Synod of Dordt / Nicolas Fornerod; title: On the Maccovius affair / Willem J. van Asselt; title: Popular and catholic : the Modus docendi of the Synod of Dordt / W. Robert Godfrey; title: "O, ye women, think of thy innocent children, when they die young!" : the Canons of Dordt (first head, article seventeen) between polemic and pastoral theology / Erik A. de Boer; title: The drafting of the Canons of Dordt : a preliminary survey of early drafts and related documents / Donald Sinnema; title: The drafting of the Canons of Dordt : a preliminary survey of early drafts and related documents / Donald Sinnema; title: Imagining the Synod of Dordt and the Arminian controversy / Joke Spaans; title: Ambivalent assessments of the Synod of Dordt by Dutch Contra-Remonstrants / Willem J. op 't Hof; title: Making sense of schism / Joris van Eijnatten