Academy of Saumur explained

Academy of Saumur
Native Name:	Académie de Saumur
Native Name Lang:	fr
Other Name:	University of Saumur
Established:	1593
Closed:	after 1685
Country:	France

The Academy of Saumur (fr|Académie de Saumur) was a Huguenot university at Saumur in western France.^[1] It existed from 1593, when it was founded by Philippe de Mornay,^[2] until shortly after 1685, when Louis XIV decided on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, ending the limited toleration of Protestantism in France.^[3]

Amyraldism

See main article: Amyraldism.

The Academy was the home of Amyraldism, an important strand of Protestant thought of the seventeenth century. Also called Saumurianism or hypothetical universalism, it was a moderate Calvinist movement, remaining within Calvinism.^[3]

The Helvetic Consensus and Westminster Confession were concerned to combat the tendency Amyraldism represented.^[4]

See also

• List of early modern universities in Europe

Further reading

• J.-P. Dray, The Protestant Academy of Saumur and its relations with the Oratorians of Les Ardilliers, History of European Ideas, 1988, p. 465-478.

Notes and References

1. Book: Stam, Frans Pieter . The Controversy Over the Theology of Saumur, 1635-1650: Disrupting Debates Among the Huguenots in Complicated Circumstances . 1988 . APA-Holland University Press . 978-90-302-1019-1 . en.
2. Du Plessis-Monary, Philip. 4 . 34 .
3. Saumur . 10 . 213 .
4. Warfield . Benjamin B. . Calvinism . 2 . 362 .