'Gisbertus Voetius' ('Voet') (
March 3,
1589 —
November 1,
1676) was a
Dutch Calvinist theologian.
He was born at
Heusden, Holland, studied at
Leiden, and in
1611 became Protestant pastor of
Vlijmen, whence in
1617 he returned to Heusden. In
1619 he played an influential part in the
Synod of Dort, and in
1634 was made professor of theology and Oriental science at the
University of Utrecht. Three years later he became pastor of the Utrecht congregation. He was an advocate of a strong form of
Calvinism (
Gomarism) against the
Arminians. His personal influence was good, and the city of
Utrecht perpetuated his memory by giving his name to the street in which he had lived.
Bibliography
★ Van Ruler, Han. ''The Crisis of Causality. Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature and Change'', Leiden/New York/Köln: Brill, 1995.
★ Beck, Andreas J. "Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676): Basic Features of His Doctrine of God". In: Willem J. van Asselt und Eef Dekker (ed.). ''Reformation and Scholasticism: An Ecumenical enterprise''. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2001, 205-226.
References
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Voetius: Online Biography