Those who uphold the original beliefs of Jacobus Arminius himself, is the common way to define Arminianism, but those of Hugo Grotius, John Wesley and others also understood the term as a sort of umbrella for a bigger alliance of ideas as well.

* Atonement – Wesley's atonement is a hybrid of the penal substitution theory and the governmental theory of Hugo Grotius, a lawyer and one of the Remonstrants.

In 1625 Hugo Grotius argued that nations as well as persons ought to be governed by universal principle based on morality and divine justice while the relations among polities ought to be governed by the law of peoples, the jus gentium, established by the consent of the community of nations on the basis of the principle of pacta sunt servanda, that is, on the basis of the observance of commitments.

Andrewes was a friend of Hugo Grotius, and one of the foremost contemporary scholars, but is chiefly remembered for his style of preaching.

One of the members of the commission is Hugo Grotius ( Hugo de Groot ), a highly regarded jurist and one of the most important political thinkers of his day.

Grotius ' view as given in a note on Revelation 2: 6, is substantially the same as that of Tillemont.

Though contemporary human rights is considerably different than the type of rights envisioned under natural law, Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius and John Locke offered the first accounts of universal entitlement to certain rights on the basis of common humanity.

De jure belli ac pacis ( On the Law of War and Peace ) is a 1625 book in Latin, written by Hugo Grotius and published in Paris, on the legal status of war.

A variation that also falls within this metaphor is Hugo Grotius ’ " governmental theory ", which sees Jesus receiving a punishment as a public example of the lengths to which God will go to uphold the moral order.

It is a less theoretical work than the writings of Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf and other comparable thinkers, and as much a work of advocacy as of theory.

The best edition for general purposes is perhaps that of Dubner in Didot's Bibliotheca ( 1864 – 1872 ), which contains the Palatine Anthology, the epigrams of the Planudean Anthology not comprised in the former, an appendix of pieces derived from other sources, copious notes selected from all quarters, a literal Latin prose translation by Jean François Boissonade, Bothe, and Lapaume and the metrical Latin versions of Hugo Grotius.

To support that decision, the Rhodesian Chief Justice, Sir Hugh Beadle, quoted the 17th Century Dutch Jurist, Hugo Grotius ( who is sometimes described as the “ Grandfather of International Law ”).

Although this stature is well in the past, the library still contains some original classical works, as the original copies of Hugo Grotius ' works on peace and law and Erasmus ' Querela Pacis.

This conclusion was explicitly ( and notoriously ) drawn by early modern political theorist Hugo Grotius: " What we have been saying the natural law would have a degree of validity even if we should concede that which cannot be conceded without the utmost wickedness, that there is no God, or that the affairs of men are of no concern to him " On such a view, God is no longer a " law-giver " but at most a " law-transmitter " who plays no vital role in the foundations of morality.

What is known as Erastianism would be better connected with the name of Hugo Grotius.

* In a work entitled Hugo Grotius his Sophompaneas, published in 1652, the date is indicated by the author's name: FranCIs GoLDsMIth.

Still, Vitoria is called one of the founders of international law along with Alberico Gentili and Hugo Grotius.

In his extensive work Tractatus de legibus ac deo legislatore ( reprinted, London, 1679 ) he is to some extent the precursor of Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf, in making an important distinction between natural law and international law, which he saw as based on custom.

Though his method is throughout scholastic, he covers the same ground, and Grotius speaks of him in terms of high respect.

" It is written from the point of view of a very strict belief in inspiration, his object being to refute the statements made by Hugo Grotius in his Commentaries.

The governmental view of the atonement ( also known as the moral government theory ) is a doctrine in Christian theology concerning the meaning and effect of the death of Jesus Christ and has been traditionally taught in Arminian circles that draw primarily from the works of Hugo Grotius.

Gale's endeavour ( based on a hint of Grotius ) was to provide evidence that the foundation of European Christian philosophy is a distorted reproduction of Biblical truths.

His works are known only from his lecture notes, he himself having published nothing in his lifetime, nevertheless his influence, such as on the Dutch legal philosopher, Hugo Grotius, was significant ; Relectiones XII Theologicae in duo libros distinctae was published posthumously ( Antwerp, 1604 ).

Vattel was one of a number of 18th century European scholars who wrote on international law and were " well known in America " at the time, including Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Cornelius van Bynkershoek, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, Thomas Rutherforth, and Wolff.

Some scholars have upset the standard account of the origins of International law, which emphasises the seminal text De iure belli ac pacis by Grotius, and argued for Vitoria and, later, Suárez's importance as forerunners and, potentially, founders of the field.

Hammond sympathized with Grotius ’ desire for unity among Christians, and found his preterist exposition useful to this end.

Hammond was Grotius ’ only notable Protestant convert, and despite his reputation and influence, Grotius ’ interpretation of Revelation was overwhelmingly rejected by Protestants and gained no ground for at least 100 years.

Grotius postulates that each individual has natural rights that enable self-preservation and employs this idea as a basis for moral consensus in the face of religious diversity and the rise of natural science.

According to Grotius, letters of marque and reprisal were akin to a " private war ", a concept alien to modern sensibilities but related to an age when the ocean was lawless and all merchant vessels sailed armed for self-defense.

The term " eminent domain " was taken from the legal treatise De Jure Belli et Pacis, written by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius in 1625, which used the term dominium eminens ( Latin for supreme lordship ) and described the power as follows:

In 1747 he wrote an article for the Gentleman's Magazine suggesting that John Milton's Paradise Lost was largely a plagiarism from the Adamus Exul ( 1601 ) of Hugo Grotius, the Sarcotis ( 1654 ) of Jacob Masen ( Masenius, 1606 – 1681 ), and the Poemata Sacra ( 1633 ) of Andrew Ramsay ( 1574 – 1659 ).

Among Whewell's other works — too numerous to mention — were popular writings such as the third Bridgewater Treatise Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology ( 1833 ), and the essay, Of the Plurality of Worlds ( 1853 ), in which he argued against the probability of life on other planets, and also the Platonic Dialogues for English Readers ( 1850 – 1861 ), the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England ( 1852 ), the essay, Of a Liberal Education in General, with particular reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge ( 1845 ), the important edition and abridged translation of Hugo Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis ( 1853 ), and the edition of the Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow ( 1860 ).

In medieval Europe, political philosophers like Machiavelli, Bodin, Grotius, Hobbes, Pufendorf, Hume, and Rousseau underlined the need for rules to regulate the interaction among emerging sovereign nation states.

Richard Baxter on the other hand regarded the reading of Bodin, Hugo Grotius and Francisco Suárez as a suitable training in politics, for lawyers.

* Recipient of the Hugo Grotius Prize for the huge contribution to the development of international law and for the creation of a multipolar world doctrine ( 2000 ).

Oldenbarnevelt and Grotius, in desperation, now overplayed their hand: appealing to the requirement for unanimity in the Union treaty, they sent a delegation to the federal troops in Utrecht ( that were supposed to disarm the waardgelders in that city ) with instructions that their first allegiance was to the province that paid them, and that they were to ignore instructions by the stadtholder in case of conflict.

Some scholars have upset the standard account of the origins of International law, which emphasises the seminal text De iure belli ac pacis by Grotius, and argued for Vitoria and, later, Suárez's importance as forerunners and, potentially, founders of the field.

In the 17th century, the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius wrote " Wars, for the attainment of their objects, it cannot be denied, must employ force and terror as their most proper agents.

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.

The miraculous whole-hearted unanimity of the Legion, to the last individual, was downplayed by Hugo Grotius, for whom the moral of the Theban Legion was employed to condemn atrocities committed under military orders.

According to Grotius, Christ's death is an acceptable substitute for punishment, satisfying the demands of God's moral government.

It is remarkable for its fine tower and chime of bells, and contains the splendid allegorical monument of William the Silent, executed by Hendrik de Keyser and his son Pieter about 1621, and the tomb of Hugo Grotius, born in Delft in 1583, whose statue, erected in 1886, stands in the market-place outside the church.