[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] 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.
But God, foreseeing that, if left to themselves, men would universally reject the offers of mercy, elected some to be the subjects of his saving grace by which they are brought to faith and repentance.
[4]The Helvetic Consensus and Westminster Confession were concerned to combat the tendency Amyraldism represented.