User talk:Vejlefjord/FullWikiTable - draft

I am nearly 3 decades behind you in life experience, but I have an interest in Methodist history, and have a collection of several dozen books on Methodism, as well as having studied theology.

In a Wikipedia article on Arminianism, we are constrained in a section such as the table on which you are working, to use the language of the Remonstrances. Otherwise, I would change some of the words in the table, for what I consider to be a more accurate expression of the theology. Another more general change I would like in the article would be to define Arminianism as being the label theologians give to this strand of doctrine, deriving from the Remonstrances, and to distinguish the teachings of Jacobus Arminius from similar doctrines preceding him, and from the Wesleyan expression of Arminianism which is the more widespread expression of this.

A further issue is to draw a clear separation between Arminianism and such heresies as "Open Theism" which teaches something like that GOd does not have fore-knowledge, and so is taken by surprise and reacts to different situations.

One source for some of the Hebrew ways of interpreting Scripture is http://moriel.org/Sermons/read_a_sermon_english.php, such as "The future history of the Church", where midrash is explained for the Christian reader.

I was looking for a means of messaging more directly - I thought Wikipedia had a link somewhere such that I could e-mail rather than use a talk page. And I agree with your note about Wikipedia being in some ways more demanding, if you do the job correctly, than other academic writing. -- Robert of Ramsor (talk) 10:34, 14 June 2014 (UTC)