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Within Reformed circles, seventeenth-century Dutch thinkers such as Jacobus Arminius retained broadly Protestant soteriology while rejecting Augustinian/Lutheran accounts of the will’s bondage and Calvinist accounts of divine sovereignty. Classic Calvinism became formally defined by the Synod of Dort and its rejection of the Arminian alternative. Arminianism then appeared within various traditions, offering no sharply defined and comprehensive system. In general, Arminian soteriologies emphasize human freedom (often labeled “libertarian”) to accept or reject the gospel, with divine election being conditional (God foreseeing who will fulfill the condition of believing) or corporate (God deciding to form a servant community in the world rather than deciding the eternal destiny of particular persons). In some Arminian accounts human freedom seems to be a natural function of creation, but in others it is a universal redemptive blessing of prevenient grace—grace that comes before the possibility of human faith, as a result of Christ’s work on the cross or the Spirit’s convicting work in the heart.