The Remonstrant Brotherhood is a Church in the Netherlands, established in 1617, after a group of ministers, was expelled from the Synod of Dordrecht. It has its origins in the theology of Jacobus Arminius and the signing of the "Five articles of Remonstrance" against a stricter from of Calvinism by 44 ministers. The Remonstrants proclaimed the responsibility of man, pre-ordination through foreknowledge of faith, and that Christ's death was sufficient for all (see Arminianism).