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The Remonstrant Perspective and the Synod of Dordt
The Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) represents, in Continental Reformed orthodoxy, the culmination of the process of confessionalization, that is, the long process of Europe’s unified religion-political body (corpus christianum) breaking down into various confessional regions and identities, affecting both religious and political realities. By the end of the sixteenth century, there were clear lines of demarcation between Roman Catholics, Lutherans, the Reformed, Anglicans, and “Radicals” (that is, everyone else). Their respective beliefs were codified in basic, written confessions of faith—identity papers that distinguished one group from another. Now, after the lines had been drawn, it remained for these groups to hammer out what it meant to be truly a part of the fold. Thus the Remonstrant, or Arminian, controversy and its resolution at the Synod of Dordt four hundred years ago serve as a classic example of confessionalization and the debates that could shake an emerging denomination in an emerging republic.
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