Simon Episcopius

Simon Episcopius on an engraving around 1630

Simon Episcopius (actually Simon Bischop ; born January 8, 1583 in Amsterdam , † April 4, 1643 in Amsterdam) was an Arminian theologian and professor of the Remonstrant seminary at the University of Amsterdam .

Life

Episcopius studied in Leiden and Franeker . In 1610 he became a preacher in Bleiswijk , a congregation in South Holland, but returned to the University of Leiden in 1612, where he taught as a professor from that point on.

Already during his student days he came into contact with the teaching of Jacobus Arminius, in 1610 he was a co-signatory of the Remonstrantie and appeared at the Dordrecht Synod as a spokesman for the Remonstrants . When the Synod condemned Arminianism in April 1619, Episcopius was also banished and went first to Waalwijk and later to Antwerp . In Antwerp he soon had contact with Jan Wtenbogaert and Nikolaus Grevinchoven, with whom he took over the management of the Remonstrantschgereformeerde Broederschap .

In 1621 Episcopius went to Cologne and from there soon to Antwerp, then to Rouen and Paris . He returned to the Netherlands in 1625 and became a preacher in Rotterdam . In 1629 he moved to Amsterdam and in 1634 became the first professor of the Remonstrant seminary.

Works

Confessio sive declaratio pastorum, qui in foederato Belgio Remonstrantes vocantur (lat. And nrdl.). 1622
Apologia pro confessione . 1629
Opera theologica . Edited by Stephan Curcellaeus u. a. 2 vols. Amsterdam 1650 and 1665.

literature

Mark A. Ellis: Simon Episcopius' doctrine of original sin . New York et al. a. 2006.
HG Rogge: Episcopius, Simon . In: Realencyklopadie for Protestant Theology and Church (RE). 3. Edition. Volume 5, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1898, pp. 422-424.
Jacob Cornelis van Slee : Episcopius, Simon . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 155-157.
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Episcopius, Simon. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1523. ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )

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personal data
SURNAME	Episcopius, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bishop, Simon (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Theologian and professor of the Remonstrant seminary at the University of Amsterdam
DATE OF BIRTH	January 8, 1583
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH	April 4, 1643
Place of death	Amsterdam