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  Arminius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arminius (also Hermann, Armin, 16 BC–AD 21) was a war chief of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci who defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
The son she bore Arminius while in captivity, Thumelicus, was trained by the Romans as a gladiator in Ravenna and probably died in the arena before reaching the age of thirty or went back to Germania after his release.
In 1839, construction was started on a massive statue of Arminius, known as the "Hermannsdenkmal", on a hill near Detmold in the Teutoburg Forest; it was completed and dedicated during the early years of the Second German Empire in the wake of the German victory over France in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871.
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 Jacobus Arminius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arminius was born at Oudewater, Utrecht, on October 10, 1560.
Arminius remained at Leiden from 1576 to 1582.
Arminius is best known as the founder of the anti-Calvinistic school in Reformed Protestant theology, and thereby lent his name to a movement which resisted some of the tenets of Calvinism Arminianism.
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 Who Was Arminius?
Arminius became allied to a regent family and his convictions on the relation of church and state were the same as that of most regents.
Arminius taught that faith itself was imputed to the sinner for righteousness, whereas the earlier teaching had stressed that it was the object of faith, namely Christ and His righteousness, that was imputed to the sinner.
Arminius' teaching turns faith from an instrument that rests on the work of Christ to a work of man, and tends to change faith from that which receives the righteousness of Christ to that which is righteousness itself.
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 Jacobus Arminius - Theopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jacobus Arminius (1560-1609) was a Dutch Reformed theologian and professor of theology at the University of Leiden.
Arminius was born Jacob Hermansen at Oudewater, Utrecht, on October 10, 1560.
Arminius is best known as the founder of the anti-Calvinistic school in Protestant theology that bears his name -- Arminianism.
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 Biography of Jacobus Arminius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Arminius was born in the Netherlands during the Spanish occupation, at Oudewater near Utrecht.
Arminius returned home to learn that his mother and several of his brothers and sisters had been among the victims.
After returning to Geneva, Arminius must have been more prudent, for in 1585 Beza wrote to the Amsterdam city rulers (who were sponsoring the young man’s education), commending his ability and diligence highly and encouraging a continuance of their "kindness and liberality." Perhaps significantly, Beza made no mention of Arminius’s theology.
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 Jacobus Arminius
Arminius was appointed pastor in Amsterdam upon returning from further studies in Italy.
Celebrated in the university, Arminius was savaged in the church by ultra-Calvinist refugees from France whose spirit was alien to the Christian convictions native to Holland.
Admittedly, Arminius had not spoken the last word on either Romans 7 or 9 (or on the notion that philosophy is the necessary foundation to theology.) Still, he never deserved the abuse heaped on him.
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 Arminius Lodge - Who was Arminius?
Arminius organized a rebellion of the Cherusci, annihilating three Roman legions in the Varus Battle or Battle of Teutoburg Forest in AD 9 and forcing the Romans back to the Rhine.
Arminius' early career was not untypical: he had served in the Roman army from 1-6 AD, studied its military techniques, and earned Roman citizenship.
Arminius used his leadership skills and military prowess to gather allies and in the late summer of 9 AD led the Cherusci in an ambush of Roman forces that Varus had led across the Rhine and into the Teutoburger Wald.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Arminianism
Arminius addressed himself to the work; but he soon began to feel that Calvinism was repugnant to all the instincts of his soul.
Arminius did not live to see the ultimate results of the controversy, as he died of consumption in his forty-ninth Year, October, 1609.
Although the principles of Arminius were solemnly condemned in the great Calvinist Synod held at Dordrecht, or Dort, in 1618-19, and the "Remonstrant heresy" was rigorously suppressed during the lifetime of Maurice of Orange, nevertheless the Leyden professor had given to ultra-Calvinism a blow from which it never recovered.
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 AFA - Arminius and the Cherusci   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Arminius had taken Segestes' daughter, Thusnelda, as wife, although she had been promised to another man- while Tacitus called it "stealing" she proved it to be otherwise in subsequent years by her loyalty to her husband.
Arminius came to realize the value of his identity, of his ancestry, and of the old ways of his people (any tribal identities would've been broadened by the Roman catagorization of the Germans together).
Arminius wanted victory and glory, and wished to let the Romans make their way back into the swamp, because there was no other escape.
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 Arminius - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
ARMINIUS, the Latinized form of the name of Hermann, or more probably Armin (17 B.C.-A.D.
He was a son of a certain Segimer, a prince of the tribe of the Cherusci, and in early life served with distinction as an officer in the Roman armies.
The hero's later years were spent in fighting against Marbod, prince of the Marcomanni, and in disputes with his own people occasioned probably by his desire to found a powerful kingdom.
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 Arminius - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Arminius, Jacobus (1560-1609), Dutch theologian, born in Oudewater, South Holland.
Arminius was the founder of the Christian doctrine called...
In the Netherlands, theological controversy raged from 1603 to 1618 between disciples of Jacob Arminius, a Leiden theology professor who maintained...
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Arminius
Arminius successfully resisted in a series of skirmishes and battles and came close once more to annihilating an entire Roman army under Caecina; only the indiscipline of his uncle Inguiomer, who attacked the Roman camp too early, saved Caecina from suffering Varus' fate.
The son she bore Arminius while in captivity, Thumelicus, was trained by the Romans as a gladiator in Ravenna and died in the arena before reaching the age of thirty.
Based on these records, the story of Arminius was revived in the 1500s with the recovery of the histories of Tacitus by German humanists.
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 James Arminius - ReligionFacts
Recalled by the government of Amsterdam, in 1588 Arminius was appointed preacher of the Reformed congregation.
Arminius was suspected of heresy because he regarded the subscription to the symbolical books as not binding and was ready to grant to the State more power in ecclesiastical matters than the strict Calvinists would admit.
He denied neither God's omnipotence nor his free grace, but Arminius thought it his duty to save the honor of God, and to emphasize, on the basis of the clear expressions of the Bible, the free will of man as well as the truth of the doctrine of sin.
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Arminius does hold that the Christian can–"it is possible"–have assurance of his salvation.
Arminius claims to hold to the teaching of the Heidelberg Catechism and the Belgic Confession (1561), yet to do so would necessitate a reinterpretation of "original sin" and the phrase from the confession which says that original sin "is sufficient to condemn all mankind"
Arminius himself and some of his followers were quite orthodox in doctrine.
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 THE WORKS OF JAMES ARMINIUS VOL. 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
While Arminius was yet an infant, his father died, and he, with a brother and sister, was left to the care of his widowed mother.
Arminius accordingly accompanied him thither, but had been engaged in his studies at the University only a short time when the mournful intelligence reached him that his native town had been destroyed by the Spanish army.
Arminius learned that the new institution had been opened for the admission of students, he at once prepared to return to Holland, and soon entered as a student at Leyden.
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 Arminius death metal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Arminius was een leider van een opstandige Germanenstam.
Arminius is opgericht in 1998 en heeft zijn naam te danken aan een Germaanse veldheer.
The name Arminius comes from a brutal general who fought the Romans 2,000 years ago and it is not surprising that the band bearing his name would also be a crushing death metal entity.
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 Calvin and Arminius
Arminius was a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church and theological professor at the University of Leiden.
In 1619 Arminius' views were debated at the synod of Dort (an assembly of the Dutch Reformed Church which also included representatives from a number of surrounding countries) resulting in his condemnation and, for a time, the persecution of his followers.
Arminius states that he needs further study on the possibility of a believer turning from Christ, since he feels that there appear to be scripture passages on both sides of the issue.
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 BookRags: Jacobus Arminius Biography
Jacobus Arminius was born on Oct. 10, 1560, in Oudewater, Holland.
In 1588 Arminius was ordained in Amsterdam and eventually achieved the reputation of being a devoted pastor.
The position of Arminius against the Calvinist doctrine of predestination was condemned by the national synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1618-1619.
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 Arminius, The Scapecoat of Calvinism
As a former student of Beza, Arminius was asked to defend his teacher, although there is no evidence to suggest that Arminius had ever accepted the position of Beza.
Although it was Arminius who had called for an open forum, there were 130 Calvinists present and 13 Remonstrants who were prisoners of the state and were given no vote.
It was not until the Wesleyan Reformation that the pure doctrine of Arminius was restored and the tendencies of Pelagianism and Unitarianism removed.
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 Arminius, the Scapegoat of Calvinism
On account of this transgression, man fell under the displeasure and the wrath of God, rendered himself subject to a double death, and deserving to be deprived of the primeval righteousness and holiness in which a great part of the image of God consisted.
Arminius is misrepresented as teaching the absolute freedom of the will.
Arminius did not object to saying, "the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us," but he did object to saying that "the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us for righteousness." He wanted to avoid saying that Christ's righteousness is a cloak over our unrighteousness.
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 Arminius, Arminianism, and the Five Articles of the Remonstrants
A work having been published shortly afterwards attacking the Calvinistic view of predestination, Arminius was requested to answer it; but on careful examination he became convinced that the doctrine taught by Calvin and Beza could not be supported by the Holy Scriptures.
He was denounced as a Pelagian and worse than a Pelagian, and in 1607 an assembly was convened at the Hague to decide in what manner a synod was to be held to determine the controversy.
In 1608, Arminius, and Gomar, his chief opponent, appeared before the Supreme Court of the Hague, which, having heard their statements, decided that the points on which they differed were of little importance and unessential to religion.
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 Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3 | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Arminius was induced to compose a rejoinder to the answer of Junius, which he transmitted to the Professor, who retained it full six years, to the time of his death, without attempting to reply."
The letter of Arminius was divided by Junius into twenty-seven propositions in answering it, and each of them is here presented, with the answer of Junius, and the reply of Arminius, corresponding to it.
They who do not give their assent to the sentiments of others, seem to themselves, and wish to seem to others, to be, in this, under the influence of sound judgment; but sometimes, ignorance of the sentiments of others is the cause of this, which, nevertheless, they by no means acknowledge.
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 AllRefer.com - Arminius (Ancient History, Northern Europe, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Arminius, who had been a Roman citizen and soldier, secretly gathered a great allied force and ambushed Publius Quintilius Varus in the Teutoburg Forest in
Tacitus, the modern source for Arminius, glorified him as a noble barbarian.
In the romantic period German nationalists made much of Arminius, who became a major national hero and was sometimes wrongly identified with Siegfried.
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 The Arminian Controversy and the Synod of Dort
Arminius' senior colleague, Petrus Plancius, registered a protest against him which was investigated by the consistory.
Arminius is always described, even by his critics, as a faithful pastor, a sober and consistent Christian, a sincere man of rare scholarly abilities and a man of sensitivity and peace, who, against his will, was always at war.
If it is true, and it seems to have been, that Arminius pledged to adhere to the confessions of the church in his teachings while at the same time teaching otherwise, he was guilty of a serious fault.
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 James Arminius The Scapegoat of Calvinism
Arminius is sometimes blamed for almost leading the Reformation off course: "Calvinism came in, Arminius nearly ruined it, and the Synod of Dort restored it."
Arminius describes the effects of the first sin of the first man as "the withdrawing of that primitive righteousness and holiness.
Across their ministry both Arminius and Wesley patiently denied that they were heretics, but were in agreement with historic Christianity and the great ecumenical church councils.
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 Freemasons of the Arminius Lodge #25 : Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Welcome to the official website of the Arminius Lodge #25 chartered by the Grand Lodge of D.C. This site is about Washington, D.C. Masons, members of the Free and Accepted Masons of Washington, D.C. Freemasonry is first and foremost a fraternity.
Arminius Lodge #25 is a German speaking lodge, conducting all our ritual and degree work in the German language.
Arminius Lodge #25 meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month, at 7:30pm at Takoma Masonic Center 115 Carroll Street, NW Washington, DC 20012, (phone) 202-829-7790.
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