Revisiting the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) (Brill's Series in Church History)

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
A. Goudriaan & F. van Lieburg: Introduction......Page 10
F. van Lieburg: Gisbertus Samuels, a Reformed Minister Sentenced by the Synod of Zeeland in 1591 for His Opinions on Predestination......Page 16
W. den Boer: Defense or Deviation? A Re-examination of Arminius's Motives to Deviate from the 'Mainstream' Reformed Theology......Page 38
H.A. Krop: Philosophy and the Synod of Dordt. Aristotelianism, Humanism, and the Case against Arminianism......Page 64
A. Goudriaan: The Synod of Dordt on Arminian Anthropology......Page 96
J. Beyer & L.T.I. Penman: The Petitions of 'a Supposed Prophetesse.' The Lubeck Letters of Anna Walker and Their Significance for the Synod of Dordt. A Linguistic and Contextual Analysis......Page 122
A. Milton: A Distorting Mirror: The Hales and Balcanquahall Letters and the Synod of Dordt......Page 150
J.D. Moore: James Ussher's Influence on the Synod of Dordt......Page 178
N. Fornerod: "The Canons of the Synod Had Shot Off the Advocate's Head": A Reappraisal of the Genevan Delegation at the Synod of Dordt......Page 196
W.J. van Asselt: On The Maccovius Affair......Page 232
W.R. Godfrey: Popular and Catholic: The Modus Docendi of the Canons of Dordt......Page 258
E.A. de Boer: "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......Page 276
D. Sinnema: The Drafting of the Canons of Dordt: A Preliminary Survey of Early Drafts and Related Documents......Page 306
D. Sinnema: The Canons of Dordt: From Judgment on Arminianism to Confessional Standard......Page 328
J. Spaans: Imagining the Synod of Dordt and the Arminian Controversy......Page 350
W.J. op 't Hof: Ambivalent Assesments of the Synod of Dordt by Dutch Contra-Remonstrants......Page 382
J. van Eijnatten: Making Sense of Schism......Page 412
Index of Biblical Texts......Page 440
Index of Names......Page 442
Index of Subjects......Page 450