Arminian

British  

/ ɑːˈmɪnɪən /

adjective

1. denoting, relating to, or believing in the Christian Protestant doctrines of Jacobus Arminius, published in 1610, which rejected absolute predestination and insisted that the sovereignty of God is compatible with free will in man. These doctrines deeply influenced Wesleyan and Methodist theology

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noun

1. a follower of such doctrines

Other Word Forms

• Arminianism noun

Example Sentences

Arminian theology made its most lasting mark in the United States.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2021

Ultimately, Friedman concludes, the new science of economics secularized Arminian ideas, foreshadowing a world in which the market and other secular institutions would take over from God the task of improving human prospects.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2021

Arminian, and Socinian doctrine that the human will co-operates with the divine in the matter of saving grace.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

But this inference will flow quite as naturally, by taking the Arminian ground of gracious ability, and save the other difficulties beside.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur

Julius Hare belonged to what has been called the “Broad Church party,” though some of his opinions approach very closely to those of the Evangelical Arminian school, while others again seem vague and undecided.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various