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Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius (1560–1609) and his historic supporters known as the Remonstrants and is known as a kind sect of soteriological that is inside Protestant Christianity. Dutch Arminianism was originally articulated in the Remonstrance (1610), a theological statement signed by 45 ministers and submitted to the States-General of the Netherlands. The Synod of Dort (1618–19) was called by the States General to consider the Remonstrance. The five points of the Remonstrance asserted that:
The crux of Remonstrant Arminianism lay in the assertion that human dignity requires an unimpaired freedom of the will.
Many Christian believers have been swayed by Arminian views, notably the Baptists (See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.