Alec Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University.Polly Ha is Associate Professor of the History of Christianity at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina.Fred van Lieburg is Professor of Religious History at Faculty of Humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.Ole Peter Grell is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at Open University in the United Kingdom.Jacob van Sluis studied theology and philosophy at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Until his retirement, he worked as a subject librarian at this university and at Tresoar in Leeuwarden.Jeanette Kreijkes is a PhD student at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Besides, she is a teacher of Latin and Greek.Harm Goris is a senior lecturer systematic theology at the School of Catholic Theology at Tilburg University.Dolf te Velde is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Theological University Kampen and Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit Leuven.Ariane Albisser is Teaching Assistent for Church History at the University of Zurich.Corné Blaauw is Senior Pastor of Kraaifontein Baptist Church, Cape Town, South Africa. Besides, he is PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

The Synod of Dordrecht (1618-1619) discussed the character of grace and marked a distinctive and even historical accent in the Catholic tradition from Medieval theology, Arminianism and Lutheranism.Examining a landmark - the importance of the Synod of Dordrecht

The Synod of Dordrecht (1618-1619) discussed the character of grace and marked a distinctive and even historical accent in the Catholic tradition from Medieval theology, Arminianism and Lutheranism.

At the Synod of Dordrecht (1618-19), the deep questions of justification and faith, election and rejection, time and eternity, grace and free will, the individual and the body of Christ, Israel and the church, the acquisition of salvation through Christ and its application by His Spirit, baptism and regeneration, and especially the precise relationship between these, were at stake. These deep questions are addressed in this study. Lines are drawn to the historical, theological and political context of the time of the synod. Patristics and the Middle Ages are not absent, nor are the metaphysical questions related to these theological issues. Also the church polity of Dordt is discussed, especially the roots, influences and structures of its church order. This volume ends with a hermeneutical reflection on the way we confess the electing God today.