Academy of Saumur explained

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

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.^[2]

The Helvetic Consensus and Westminster Confession were concerned to combat the tendency Amyraldism represented.^[3]

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. Du Plessis-Monary, Philip. 4 . 34 .
2. Saumur . 10 . 213 .
3. Warfield . Benjamin B. . Calvinism . 2 . 362 .