It was at this time he began his controversy with Simon Episcopius, who, in attacking the Coronis, railed against the author as having been " a disturber of the public peace in his native country, so that the English magistrates had banished him thence ; and now, by his late printed Coronis, he was raising new disturbances in the peaceable Netherlands.

Simon Episcopius ( 1583 – 1643 ) was spokesman of the 14 Remonstrants who were summoned before the Synod in 1618.

Furthermore, Episcopius was commanded not to write letters or books promoting the doctrines of the Remonstrants.

Gap creationism was popularized by Thomas Chalmers, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, founder of the Free Church of Scotland, and author of one of the Bridgewater Treatises, who attributed it to 17th century Dutch Arminian theologian Simon Episcopius.

The context was that Petavius and Simon Episcopius, to take two examples, denied that the ante-Nicene Church Fathers held the same doctrines as those which were established at the Council of Nicaea.

Simon Episcopius ( January 8, 1583 – April 4, 1643 ) was a Dutch theologian and Remonstrant who played a significant role at the Synod of Dort in 1618.

At the Synod of Dort in 1618, Episcopius was chosen as the spokesman of the thirteen representatives of the Remonstrants before the synod ; but he was refused a hearing when he would not submit to the Synod's order of discussion — which was for him to first present scriptural arguments for the Remonstrants ' opinions.

After the death ( 1625 ) of Maurice, prince of Orange, the violence of the Arminian controversy began to abate, and Episcopius was permitted in 1626 to return to his own country.

Besides opposing at all points the peculiar doctrines of Calvinism, Episcopius protested against the tendency of Calvinists to lay so much stress on abstract dogma, and argued that Christianity was practical rather than theoretical — not so much a system of intellectual belief as a moral power and that an orthodox faith did not necessarily imply the knowledge of and assent to a system of doctrine which included the whole range of Christian truth, but only the knowledge and acceptance of so much of Christianity as was necessary to effect a real change on the heart and life.

A life of Episcopius was written by Philipp van Limborch, and one was also prefixed by his successor, Étienne de Courcelles ( Curcellaeus ) ( 1586 – 1659 ), to an edition of his collected works published in 2 vols.

The doctrine of the Remonstrants was embodied in 1621 in a confessio written by Episcopius, their major theologian, while Jan Uytenbogaert gave them a catechism and regulated their church order.

He did not, however, live to carry out this project, but it was very creditably executed by his son Hieronymus Froben and his son-in-law Nikolaus Episcopius.

" Episcopius [...] insisted on being permitted to begin with a refutation of the Calvinistic doctrines, especially that of reprobation, hoping that, by placing his objections to this doctrine in front of all the rest, he might excite such prejudice against the other articles of the system, as to secure the popular voice in his favor.

Episcopius may be regarded as in great part the theological founder of Arminianism, since he developed and systematized the principles tentatively enunciated by Arminius.

His editorial labors included the publication of various works of his predecessors, and of Epistolae ecclesiasticae praestantum ad eruditorum virorum ( Amsterdam, 1684 ), chiefly, by Jacobus Arminius, Joannes Uytenbogardus, Konrad Vorstius ( 1569 – 1622 ), Gerhard Vossius ( 1577 – 1649 ), Hugo Grotius, Simon Episcopius ( his grand-uncle ) and Caspar Barlaeus ; they are of great value for the history of Arminianism.

In 1618 – 19 the Synod of Dordrecht, after expelling the thirteen Arminian pastors headed by Simon Episcopius, established the victory of the Calvinist school.

He later included Locke in the encyclopedias he edited ; and the acquaintance with Limborch soon ripened into a close friendship, which strengthened his preference for the Remonstrant theology, already favorably known to him by the writings of his grand-uncle, Stephan Curcellaeus ( d. 1645 ) and by those of Simon Episcopius.

* Georg Agricola, De re metallica Latin edition by Froben and Episcopius, Basle, 1556.

He, his father and his brother-in-law Nicolaus Episcopius were noted for their working friendship with Erasmus and for making Basel an important center of Renaissance printing.

A delegation of Episcopius, Bernard Dwinglo and Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus called on the Church of England representatives, and other coming from outside, asking for support and giving written accounts of the context.

* 1583 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian ( d. 1643 )

* April 4 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian ( b. 1583 )

* January 8 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian ( d. 1643 )

At the opening of the synod, Episcopius asked to speak.

The thirteen Remonstrant ministers, including Episcopius, had been charged to remain in Dort until further instruction.

* Frederick Calder ( 1835 ), Memoirs of Simon Episcopius, London: Simpkin and Marshall.

Close friends, students and supporters of Arminius included Johannes Drusius, Conrad Vorstius, Anthony Thysius, Johannes Halsbergius, Petrus Bertius, Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus, and the brothers Rembert and Simon Episcopius.

Episcopius held that the Nicene fathers did not consider a belief in our Lord's true and proper divinity as an indispensable term of catholic communion ; Bull wrote the Judicium to prove that they did.

Anthony Farindon states ( as on Hales's own authority ) that Hales departed from Calvinism when Simon Episcopius pressed the verse St. John iii.

At the end of the Synod's sittings in 1619, Episcopius and the other twelve Arminian representatives were deprived of their offices and expelled from the country.

Episcopius retired to Antwerp and ultimately to France, where he lived partly at Paris, partly at Rouen.

He admitted that he knew it was open to him at all times, and he could have rebutted it before the hearing officer.

This presumption may be rebutted however by proving that the ring was given on condition ( express or implied ) that it must be returned if the marriage did not take place, for whatever reason.

However, this story was rebutted by both Clapton and Baker, first by Clapton in a Times article from April 2006.

" Unity's sister, Deborah, rebutted by stating that the entourage that returned with Unity consisted of herself and their mother and although she doesn't remember them being searched upon return, that Unity " could not walk, talked with difficulty and was a changed personality, like one who had had a stroke ", and that she has detailed records from Professor Cairns, neurosurgeon at the Nuffield Hospital in Oxford, on her condition, including X-rays showing the bullet.

* They rebutted the argument that it was simply an oath to the constitution by pointing out that the constitution itself made the King head of state and it was therefore the same as an oath of allegiance to him directly.

In 2012 he rebutted two longstanding rumors: one that he appeared as a soldier on a train in Biloxi Blues ( 1988 ), saying, " No. I don't know why that's on IMDb, but I never was in that ," and the other that he is related to dancer Lacey Schwimmer, saying, " No, not at all.

These arguments were later rebutted by further findings showing that changes in pH even greater than that caused by energy substrates do not affect the GABA-shift described in the presence of energy substrate-fortified ACSF and that the mode of action of beta-hydroxybutyrate, pyruvate and lactate ( assessed by measurement NAD ( P ) H and oxygen utilization ) was energy metabolism-related.

Pei Songzhi, annotator of the Records of Three Kingdoms, rebutted Sun Sheng, arguing that Huang Zu was newly broken and had yet to recollect his forces while the indigenous tribes were scattered and not much of a threat.

His selection was questioned in some quarters, but this criticism was amply rebutted when he finished second behind Mikhail Botvinnik, with a score of 11 / 20.

However, the charge was rebutted by the programme's producer, Mark Lowther, who said that Radio 3 audiences wanted programmes that challenged and inspired.

One was held in Edinburgh where Hughes stressed his human rights and Green friendly background ; another in Manchester, where Chris Huhne rebutted criticism from Sir Menzies Campbell that his call for a rise in petrol duty would harm people living in rural areas dependent on using their cars.

" This op-ed quickly generated much discussion among conservationists and was rebutted on-line by The Nature Conservancy, defending its position of being dedicated to continuing the defense of reefs in spite of continued human causes to reef declines.

In 2001, this criticism of the Committee's acoustic evidence was rebutted in a Science and Justice article written by D. B.

Van den Toorn complains, for example, that “ Fanned by an aversion for male sexuality, which it depicts as something brutal and contemptible, irrelevancies are being read into the music .” Van den Toorn's complaint was rebutted by musicologist Ruth Solie, but van den Toorn responded with a whole book on these issues.

Bowdoin rebutted the charges and claims made in Bernard's letters, and published a highly polemic pamphlet arguing for Bernard's removal that was sent to the colonial secretary, Lord Hillsborough.

Rather than sympathizing with pacifists ' and radicals ' strategic concerns, he rebutted them, telling The New York Times that massive emigration of draft-age Americans could help end the war, and telling another reporter that going to jail was bad public relations.

In addition, the plaintiffs offered expert testimony from psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and sociologists -- none of which was rebutted by the defense — demonstrating that the inadequate educational facilities and curricula found in segregated schools were harmful to the mental health of African-American children.

Malthus devotes a chapter of Principles ( 1836 ) to underconsumption theory, which was rebutted by David Ricardo, in his Notes on Malthus, and which debate continued in private correspondence.

Two years later he made a famous appeal to Gratian's successor, Valentinian II, in a dispatch that was rebutted by Ambrose, the bishop of Milan.

Two years later, Gratian was assassinated in Lugdunum, and Symmachus, now urban prefect of Rome, addressed an elaborate epistle to Gratian's successor, Valentinian II, in a famous dispatch that was rebutted by Ambrose, the bishop of Milan.

Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer who suggested as much in his book Power: Why Some People Have It-And Others Don ’ t was quickly rebutted by Bernard Leser, president of Conde Nast USA during Brown ’ s tenure.