Arminius, Arminianism, and Europe: Jacobus Arminius (1559/60-1609)

Th. Marius van Leeuwen is Professor at the Remonstrant Seminary (Institute for Religious Studies, Leiden University). He holds a Ph.D. from Leiden University (The surplus of meaning. Ontology and eschatology in the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, (Rodopi 1981). Van Leeuwen authored several books and articles on biblical hermeneutics, liturgy, the Christian year, the history of the Remonstrant Brotherhood, and ecumenism. Keith D. Stanglin, Ph.D. (2006) in Historical Theology, Calvin Theological Seminary, is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Harding University. He has published Arminius on the Assurance of Salvation: The Context, Roots, and Shape of the Leiden Debate, 1603-1609 (Brill, 2007), as well as several articles on the history of theology. He specializes in Reformation and Post-Reformation theology. Marijke Tolsma is art historian and coordinator at the Remonstrant Seminary, Institute for Religious Studies, Leiden University. She publishes mainly on seventeenth-century art, related to religious subjects. She published Prachtig Protestant (Waanders, 2008), and contributed in Jane Turner (ed.), The Grove Dictionary of Art (Oxford University Press, 2000).