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Arminian Church

Arminian Church

8.6
A Protestant church that teaches people can choose to be saved
  • noun
  • /ɑrˈmɪniən tʃɜrʧ/
translation icon : Iglesia arminiana
  • He attended services at his local Arminian Church every Sunday morning.

Examples

  • The Arminian Church places great emphasis on human free will in matters of salvation.

  • Debates between the Arminian Church and the Calvinist Church were common in seventeenth-century Europe.

  • The Arminian Church promotes the idea of free will in salvation.

  • Many members of the Arminian Church believe in the importance of choice.

  • The Arminian Church emphasizes the importance of free will in individual salvation.

  • In many communities, the Arminian Church is known for its welcoming approach to worship.

  • Historically, the Arminian Church has played a significant role in Protestant thought.

Synonyms

General Baptist
vsArminian Church
7.3

A person in a Baptist church who believes people have free will and Jesus died for everyone

is a broader Protestant denomination that stresses free will in salvation

Surface Forms

Arminian Church singular
Arminian Churches plural

Morphology

Arminian + church

The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'Arminian' (pertaining to Arminian beliefs about free will) with 'church' (a Christian body), yielding a church that holds Arminian views. This is a straightforward adjective + noun composition following standard patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would understand it.

Etymology

Arminian Church is named after the Dutch pastor Jacobus Arminius, who taught that people have 'free will' to accept or refuse salvation. So today the Arminian Church means a church that follows his ideas and stresses 'free will' in who is saved.