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Encyclopedia of Religion entry forCameronitesA School of theology founded by John Cameron (1579?-1625). Cameron was born and educated at Glasgow. In 1600 he went to France and taught Greek and Latin at Bordeaux. In 1602 he received an appointment at Sedan. After studying divinity at Paris, Geneva and Heidelberg for about three years, he went back to Bordeaux as protestant minister (1608-1617). In 1618 he removed to Saumur as professor of divinity. Here he put forward views, which were similar to those afterwards adopted by Moses Amyraut (see AMYRALDISTS). " The substance of these opinions was that God wills the salvation of all men, and not of the elect only, that none are excluded from the possibility of salvation, and that those are saved who co-operate with God by using the power of judgment between good and evil which He infuses into their understanding for the choice of good " (Blunt) In 1620 Cameron returned to London, and in 1622 he became Principal of Glasgow University. He soon abandoned this position (1623) and went back to Saumur. The next year he removed to Montauban as professor of divinity. Here in 1625 he was stabbed by one of his opponents and died from the wound. His works were published in Latin and French in ten volumes (1616-42). See J. H. Blunt; the D.N.B.; and Chambers‘ Encycl. citations: Encyc. of Rel., Canney
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