Arminius on the Assurance of Salvation

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The Astrolabe

An ancient instrument for solving problems of location and distance, as well as time

Astrolábon órganon is the word used in Ptolemaeus Syntaxis 5.1 to describe a form of armillary sphere consisting of both fixed and rotating rings for determining the ecliptic co-ordinates of stars. Also called astrolabe were two-dimensional representations of the celestial sphere: over fixed disks with a representation of the horizon of the earth (in each case for a specific geographic latitude) and its parallels up to the zenith lies a rotating representation of the heavens (called ‘spider’ or ‘net’) with zodiac and indicators for some of the brightest stars. On the back is an indicator (‘alidade’) with visor plates for calculating the height of the stars. The astrolabe allows its user to determine the hours of day and night, the positions of stars, and the height and depth of objects on earth (mountains, buildings, wells). The oldest extant descriptions of the flat, planispheric astrolabe come from Iohannes Philoponus, 6th century AD, and (in Syrian) from Severus Sebokht, c. 660 AD. Indirect references may date back as early as Theon (4th cent.). Between the 8th and the 9th centuries the Arabs appropriated the knowledge of the astrolabe. At the end of the 10th century and again in the 12th century, they passed it on to Western Europe, where astrolabes were constructed up until the 17th cent. Today, one Byzantine astrolabe (from 1062) is extant, as are some 750 Arabic-Islamic astrolabes and approximately the same number of European astrolabes.

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Arminius on the Assurance of Salvation

The Context, Roots, and Shape of the Leiden Debate, 1603-1609

Keith D. Stanglin

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Publication year: 2007


Series:	Brill's Series in Church History, 27
ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007:	978 90 04 15608 1
ISBN-10:	90 04 15608 9

Cover:	Hardback
Number of pages:	xviii, 286 pp.

List price:	€ 99.00 / US$ 148.00

Table of contents

Preface
Abbreviations and Frequently Cited Material

1. Introduction

PART I. BACKGROUND OF THE DEBATE
2. Arminius and His Academic Context

PART II. THE ONTOLOGY OF SALVATION
3. Grace, Predestination, and the Ordo salutis
4. Sanctification, Perfection, and Apostasy

PART III. THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF SALVATION
5. The Undermining of Assurance
6. The Grounding of Assurance
7. Conclusion

Appendix I. Fourth Repetition of Theological Disputations at Leiden
Appendix II. Arminius, De bonis operibus (Hellerus, 1603)
Appendix III. Arminius, De fide (Neraeus, 1605)
Appendix IV. A Comparison of Causality in Arminius, Kuchlinus, and Gomarus

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'Stanglin is descriptive without overtly desiring to adjudge orthodoxy, displaying an expert and precise ability to define complex scholastic forms of argument customary in academic discourse'. [...] 'Stanglin writes well and his topic is worthy. His book should be used in Reformation studies in general and in courses that examine the developments of seventeenth-century Reformed theology in particular'. Jeremy J. Bangs, Leiden American Pilgrim Museum. In: Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, vol. 77, no. 4 (December 2008), pp. 1054-1057.

Readership

All those interested in historical theology and early modern history, as well as those interested in the past, present, and future of Reformed and Arminian theology.

About the author(s)

Keith D. Stanglin, Ph.D. (2006) in Historical Theology, Calvin Theological Seminary, is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Harding University. He has published articles in Trinity Journal, Westminster Theological Journal, and Journal of Religious Ethics.

Although scholarship has treated, on the one hand, some aspects of Jacobus Arminius’s theology, and on the other hand, the doctrine of assurance in the Reformed theologians of early Protestant orthodoxy, nevertheless proper attention has not yet been given to the intersection of these topics: Arminius’s doctrine of assurance. With special attention to previously neglected primary sources, this book offers stimulating insights into the academic context of Arminius, and, along with a comparative analysis of his colleagues at Leiden University, explores new horizons in his doctrines of salvation and assurance. Arminius’s search for true assurance of salvation emerges as a decisive factor in his famous dissent from Reformed theology.

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