Background
He was born at Amsterdam on the 1st of January 1583.
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Simon Episcopius
also known as
Simon Biscop, Simon Bisschop
Simon Episcopius was a Dutch theologian and Remonstrant. He was considered systematizer of Arminianism.
Education
In 1600 he entered the university of Leiden, where he studied theology under Jacobus Arminius, whose teaching he followed.
Career
In 1610, the year in which the Arminians presented the famous Remonstrance to the states of Holland, he became pastor at Bleyswick, a small village near Rotterdam; in the following year he advocated the cause of the Remonstrants at the Hague conference.
In 1612 he succeeded Francis Gomarus as professor of theology at Leiden, an appointment which awakened the bitter enmity of the Calvinists, and, on account of the influence lent by it to the spread of Arminian opinions, was doubtless an ultimate cause of the meeting of the synod of Dort in 1618. Episcopius was chosen as the spokesman of the thirteen representatives of the Remonstrants before the synod; but he was refused a hearing, and the Remonstrant doctrines were condemned without any explanation or defence of them being permitted. At the end of the synod's sittings in 1619, Episcopius and the other twelve Arminian representatives were deprived of their offices and expelled from the country.
Episcopius retired to Antwerp and ultimately to France, where he lived partly at Paris, partly at Rouen.
He devoted most of his time to writings in support of the Arminian cause; but the attempt of Luke Wadding (1588 - 1657) to win him over to the Romish faith involved him also in a controversy with that famous Jesuit. After the death (1625) of Maurice, prince of Orange, the violence of the Arminian controversy began to abate, and Episcopius was permitted in 1626 to return to his own country.
He was appointed preacher at the Remonstrant church in Rotterdam and afterwards rector of the Remonstrant college in Amsterdam.
Achievements
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Episcopius may be regarded as in great part the theological founder of Arminianism, since he developed and systematized the principles tentatively enunciated by Arminius.
Also he played a significant role at the Synod of Dort in 1618.
Works
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Responsio Remonstrantium Ad Libellum Cui Titulus Est, Specimen Calumniarum Atque Heterodoxarum Opinionum, Ex Remonstrantium, Apologia Excerptarum: ... Leydenses (Classic Reprint) (Latin Edition)
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Antidotum Continens Pressiorem Declarationem Propriæ Et Genuinæ Sententiæ Quæ in Synodo Nationali Dordracena Asserta Est Et Stabilita: Belgicè Primum ... Donatum (Classic Reprint) (Latin Edition)
(Excerpt from Antidotum Continens Pressiorem Declarationem...)
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Responsio Remonstrantium Ad Libellum Cui Titulus Est, Specimen Calumniarum Atque Heterodoxarum Opinionum, Ex Remonstrantium, Apologia Excerptarum: ... Leydenses (Classic Reprint) (Latin Edition)
Religion
Besides opposing at all points the peculiar doctrines of Calvinism, Episcopius protested against the tendency of Calvinists to lay so much stress on abstract dogma, and argued that Christianity was practical rather than theoretical-not so much a system of intellectual belief as a moral power-and that an orthodox faith did not necessarily imply the knowledge of and assent to a system of doctrine which included the whole range of Christian truth, but only the knowledge and acceptance of so much of Christianity as was necessary to effect a real change on the heart and life.
References
- The Life and Death of James Arminius, and Simon Episcopius: Professors of Divinity in the University of Leyden in Holland; Both of Them Famous ... for It; Now Published in the English Tongue
- Simon Episcopius Doctrine of Original Sin (American University Studies)
- Simon Episcopius Als Apologeet Van Het Remonstrantisme In Zijn Leven En Werken Geschetst (1899) (Dutch Edition)
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Born
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Religion
Arminianism
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