Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun arminianism

1 sense of arminianism

Sense 1
Arminianism -- (17th century theology (named after its founder Jacobus Arminius) that opposes the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin and holds that human free will is compatible with God's sovereignty)
       => Protestantism -- (the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation)