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Born 1589
Died 1676 (aged 87) • Netherlands
Subjects Of Study Calvinism • predestination
Ames, William
William Ames
English theologian
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Franciscus Gomarus
Franciscus Gomarus
Dutch theologian
Claude Pajon
French theologian
Johannes Cocceius
German theologian
Jacobus Revius
Dutch writer
Gerardus van der Leeuw
Dutch theologian
John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe
English theologian
Jansen, engraving by Jean Morin
Cornelius Otto Jansen
Flemish theologian
Hincmar of Reims
French theologian
Ratramnus
Benedictine theologian
Gottschalk Of Orbais
Roman Catholic theologian
Hodge, Charles
Charles Hodge
American scholar
Calamy, Edmund
Edmund Calamy
British theologian
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Karl Barth
Karl Barth
Swiss theologian
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
Jacobus Arminius
Dutch theologian
Emil Brunner
Swiss theologian