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GOMARUS, FRANZ (1563-1641)

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GOMARUS, See also:FRANZ (1563-1641) , Dutch theologian, was See also:born at See also:Bruges on the 3oth of See also:January 1563. His parents, having embraced the principles of the See also:Reformation, emigrated to the See also:Palatinate in 1578, in See also:order to enjoy freedom to profess their new faith, and they sent their son to be educated at See also:Strassburg under Johann See also:Sturm (1507—1589). He remained there three years, and then went in 158o to See also:Neustadt, whither the professors of See also:Heidelberg had been driven by the elector-See also:palatine because they were not See also:Lutherans. Here his teachers in See also:theology were Zacharius See also:Ursinus (1534—1583), Hieronymus Zanchius (156o—1590), and See also:Daniel Tossanus (1541—1602). See also:Crossing to See also:England towards the end of 1582, he attended the lectures of See also:John See also:Rainolds (1549—1607) at See also:Oxford, and those of See also:William See also:Whitaker (1548—1595) at See also:Cambridge. He graduated at Cambridge in 1584, and then went to Heidelberg, where the See also:faculty had been by this See also:time re-established. He was pastor of a Reformed Dutch See also:church in See also:Frankfort from 1587 till 1593, when the See also:congregation was dispersed by persecution. In 1594 he was appointed See also:professor of theology at See also:Leiden, and before going thither received fromthe university of Heidelberg the degree of See also:doctor. He taught quietly at Leiden till 1603, when Jakobus See also:Arminius came to be one of his colleagues in the theological facult,y, and began to See also:teach Pelagian doctrines and to create a new party in the university. Gomarus immediately set himself earnestly to oppose these views in his classes at See also:college, and was supported by Johann B. Bogermann (1570-1637), who afterwards became professor of theology at See also:Franeker. Arminius " sought to make See also:election dependent upon faith, whilst they sought to enforce See also:absolute See also:predestination as the See also:rule of faith, according to which the whole Scriptures are to be interpreted " (J.

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Dorner, See also:History of See also:Protestant Theology, i. p. 417). Gomarus then became the See also:leader of the opponents of Arminius, who from that circumstance came to be known as Gomarists. He engaged twice in See also:personal disputation with Arminius in the See also:assembly of the estates of See also:Holland in 16o8, and was one of five Gomarists who met five Arminians or See also:Remonstrants in the same assembly of 1609. On the See also:death of Arminius shortly after this time, Konrad Vorstius (1569—1622), who sympathized with his views, was appointed to succeed him, in spite of the keen opposition of Gomarus and his See also:friends; and Gomarus took his defeat so See also:ill that he resigned his See also:post, and went to Middleburg in 1611, where he became preacher at the Reformed church, and taught theology and See also:Hebrew in the newly founded Illustre Schule. From this See also:place he was called in 1614 to a See also:chair of theology at See also:Saumur, where he remained four years, and then accepted a See also:call as professor of theology and Hebrew to See also:Groningen, where he stayed till his death on the 1 rth of January 1641. He took a leading See also:part in the See also:synod of See also:Dort, assembled in 1618 to See also:judge of the doctrines of Arminius. He was a See also:man of ability, See also:enthusiasm and learning, a considerable See also:Oriental See also:scholar, and also a keen controversialist. He took part in revising the Dutch See also:translation of the Old Testament in 1633, and after his death a See also:book by him, called the See also:Lyra Davidis, was published, which sought to explain the principles of Hebrew See also:metre, and which created some controversy at the time, having been opposed by See also:Louis See also:Cappel. His See also:works were collected and published in one See also:volume See also:folio, in See also:Amsterdam in 1645. He was succeeded at Groningen in 1643 by his See also:pupil See also:Samuel Maresius (1599—1673).

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