but he soon returned to Montauban, and a few days afterwards he died at the age of about forty-six and perhaps at the hands of an assassin. All his works were published after his death. Theology Cameron's name has a distinct place in the development of Calvinistic theology in Europe. He and his followers maintained that the will of man is determined by the practical judgment of the mind; that the cause of men's doing good or evil proceeds from the knowledge which God infuses into them; and that God does not move the will physically, but only morally, by virtue of its dependence on the judgment of the mind. This peculiar doctrine of grace and free will was adopted by Amyraut, Cappel, Bochart, Daillé and others of the more learned among the Reformed ministers. The Cameronites (not to be confused with the Scottish sect called Cameronians) are moderate Calvinists. They are also wrongly called Universalists, as holding the universal scope [not application] rather than limited extent of Christ's death, and sometimes Amyraldians. The rigid adherents to the Synod of Dort accused them of Pelagianism, and even of Manichaeism, and the controversy between the parties was carried on with great zeal; yet the whole question between them was only, whether the will of man is determined by the immediate action of God upon it, or by the intervention of a knowledge which God impresses on the mind. Family Cameron married twice: Firstly in 1611 to Suzanne Bernadin of Tonneins and had one son, who died in infancy. Secondly in 1625 to Jeanne de Thomas, daughter of Jacques de Thomas, advocate, and widow of Dr Jean Gautier MD. Literature Axel Hilmar Swinne: John Cameron - Philosoph und Thneologe (1579 -1625), Institut für Wissenschaftliche Irenik Frankfurt am Main; N. G. Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1968 ISBN ?? References Citations Sources Attribution External links Academics of the University of Glasgow Scottish Calvinist and Reformed theologians 1570s births 1623 deaths 16th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians 17th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians