Academy of Saumur

Academy of Saumur
Académie de Saumur
Other name
University of Saumur
Active1593–after 1685
FounderPhilippe de Mornay
Religious affiliation
Protestant
Location
Saumur
,
France

The Academy of Saumur (French: Académie de Saumur) was a Huguenot university at Saumur in western France.[1] It existed from 1593, when it was founded by Philippe de Mornay,[2] until shortly after 1685, when Louis XIV decided on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, ending the limited toleration of Protestantism in France.[3]

Amyraldism

Main article: Amyraldism

The Academy was the home of Amyraldism, an important strand of Protestant thought of the seventeenth century. Also called Saumurianism or hypothetical universalism, it was a moderate Calvinist movement, remaining within Calvinism.[3]

The French theologians at Saumur, in the 17th century, taught also that Christ came into the world to do whatever was necessary for the salvation of men. But God, foreseeing that, if left to themselves, men would universally reject the offers of mercy, elected some to be the subjects of his saving grace by which they are brought to faith and repentance. According to this view of the plan of salvation, election is subordinate to redemption. God first redeems all and then elects some.[4]

The Helvetic Consensus and Westminster Confession were concerned to combat the tendency Amyraldism represented.[5]

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See also

References

  1. ^ Stam, Frans Pieter (1988). The Controversy Over the Theology of Saumur, 1635-1650: Disrupting Debates Among the Huguenots in Complicated Circumstances. APA-Holland University Press. ISBN 978-90-302-1019-1.
  2. ^ Public Domain Jackson, Samuel Macauley, ed. (1909). "Du Plessis-Monary, Philip". New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Vol. 4 (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls. p. 34.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Public Domain Jackson, Samuel Macauley, ed. (1911). "Saumur". New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Vol. 10 (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls. p. 213.
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  8. ^ Michael Heyd, Orthodoxy, Non-Conformity and Modern Science: The case of Geneva, p. 110 in Myriam Yardeni (editor), Modernité et non-conformisme en France à travers les âges (1996).
  9. ^ Hubert Cunliffe-Jones, History of Christian Doctrine (2006), p. 436.
  10. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lefebvre, Tanneguy" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 372.
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  12. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Abbadie, Jakob" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  13. ^ Public Domain Bonet-Maury, G. (1908). "Beausobre, Isaac de". In Jackson, Samuel Macauley (ed.). New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Vol. 2 (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls. p. 19.
  14. ^ Garber, Daniel; Ayers, Michael (2003). The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy. Vol. II. p. 1402.
  15. ^ Brevint, Daniel. "The Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice, by Daniel Brevint (1847 edition)". Project Canterbury. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  16. ^ Blaikie, William Garden (1886). "Colomiès, Paul" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 6. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 98–99.
  17. ^ Lejay, Paul (1908). "André Dacier" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  18. ^ "Charles Drelincourt (1595-1669)". Musée virtuel du Protestantisme (in French). Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  19. ^ Public Domain Veen, S.D. van (1909). "Des Marets, Samuel". In Jackson, Samuel Macauley (ed.). New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Vol. 3 (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls. p. 412.
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  21. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rapin, Paul de" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 909.

Further reading

  • J.-P. Dray, The Protestant Academy of Saumur and its relations with the Oratorians of Les Ardilliers, History of European Ideas, 1988, p. 465-478.