Developments in Structuring of Reformed Theology:The Synopsis Purioris Theologiae (1625) as Example

The Synopsis Purioris Theologiae (1625), an influential handbook of Reformeddogmatics, began as a cycle of disputations. A comparison of it with the cyclesthat were held previously in Leiden reveals some shifts in the structure of Reformeddogmatics. After introducing the Synopsis, this paper highlights thefunction of prolegomena, the place of predestination, and the relationship betweenthe magistrate and eschatology. It concludes that the choices made in theSynopsis illustrate tensions in Reformed theology. After the conflict with theRemonstrants it became urgent to carefully define the character of theology inthe prolegomena, to relate predestination to the person and work of Christ, andto connect the task of the magistrate to the doctrine of the church

Theses theologicae de praedestinatione et utraque illius specie, electdione ac reprobatione, De quibus, Deo juvante, sub praesidio Reverendi et clarissimi viri, D. Theodori Bezae, professoris ac ministri Genevensis, in Gymnasio: Genevensi a. d. XII. Kalend. Septemb. responsurus est Johannes Polyander junior Metensis.

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Den Staet Vande Voor-naemste Qvaestien Ende Gheschillen die ten huydighen dage gedisputeert worden : tusschen de Oude Rechtgesinde/ die men Contra-Remonstranten, ende de Nieu-gesinde diemen Remonstranten noemt. Duydelyck ghestelt ende getrouwelyck getrocken so uyt de Haechsche Conferentie als andere Stryt-Schriften over dese materie uytghegheven. Waer by noch zyn ghestelt eenige andere gheschillen/ van den genen die het met den Remonstranten houden/ opgeworpen. Als oock eenige seltsame dwalingen Nicol. Grevinchovij, ende Simonis Episcopij, getrocken uyt hare Schriften

Knuttel, W.P.C. Catalogus van de pamfletten-verzameling berustende in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 2289KB NL: " Door Johannes Polyander ; vertaald door Jacobus Triglandius. Gedrukt te Amsterdam door Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn".Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: t'Amsteldam, Voor Marten Jansz. Brandt/ Boeckvercooper op't Water/ op den hoeck vande Vrouwe-steech/ inde Gereformeerde Catechismus. 1616. - [Gedrukt door Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn]In FrakturKnuttel 2289Tiele, P. A. Bibliotheek van Nederlandsche pamfletten 1,1, 120

Brief von Johann Polyander a Kerckhoven an Heinrich Flocken, 29.06.1639

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Brief von Johann Polyander a Kerckhoven an Johannes Coccejus, 26.07.1644

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Censura in Confessionem : sive declarationem, sententiae eorum qui in fœderato Belgio Remonstrantes vocantur, super præcipuis articulis christianæ religionis / a S.S. theol. professoribus academiæ Leidensis instituta [i.e. J. Polyander à Kerckhoven, A. Rivet, A. Walaeus, A. Thysius]

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Lipsia Liberata Serenissimi Electoris Saxoniae, &c. Auspiciis, Et Virtute Nobilissima Ac Per Quam Strenua Augusti Adolphi a Trandorffs Ducis Fortissimi, &c.

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