AMYRAUT, MOÏSE. - Calvinist theologian, b. at Bourgueil in Sept. 1596, d. at Saumur on 8 Jan. 1664. He studied law at Poitiers, then theology at Saumur, where he was already a pastor in 1626. Of a calm and reflective disposition, he was entrusted with representing at the Synod of Charenton (1631) the complaints of the Protestants over the infringements of the edicts issued in their favor, and he managed to act so well that he nevertheless kept his coreligionists in-
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obedience to the king. A teacher of theology in 1633, he published in 1634 his Traité de la prédestination, (Saumur), where he professed on grace a broader doctrine than the Calvinist one, extending the hypothetical universality of grace even to the pagans and distinguishing between resistible and irresistible grace; an opinion he was able to defend also at the Synods of Loudon (1659-60) and of Charenton (1633). He had as friends or protectors Cardinal Richelieu, Hirdouin de Péréfixe and Cardinal Mazarin.
He left numerous writings, among them: Traité des religions contre ceux qui les estiment indifférentes (Paris 1631); De providentia Dei in malo (Saumur 1638); Disputatio de libero hominis arbitrio (ibid. 1657). And also notable writings on the Letters of St. Paul and the Acts of the Apostles. In 1660-64 he published with his friends L. Cappel and Josué de la Place a collection of theological theses: Syntagma thesium theologicarum in academia salmuriensi variis temporibus disputatarum, placed on the Index with decr. 24 Sept. 1686.
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