Does Arminianism lead to liberalism historically?

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arap said:
Does Arminianism lead to liberalism, historically? What about today?
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The progression and evolution of beliefs over time is a tricky and even sloppy course of events. The tracing of ideas is seldom linear. The original teachings of Arminius are not liberal but merely non-reformed. There a plenty of churches that were originally Reformed or Arminian but are now liberal. I can't find it in writing but I remember an interview of Iain Murray where he described the tragedy of the many first Puritan pulpits that went Unitarian within a generation.
 
I see a number of other historical factors "leading to liberalism."

From an historical perspective, the Enlightenment with its omniscient and autonomous human reason and German pietism have a better claim to "leading to liberalism" (in my opinion) than Arminianism.

Post Reformational scholasticism was followed by a period of sterile orthodoxy that ultimately went in the direction of rationalism and pietism. For differing reasons these two influences can be seen as formative in the thinking of the proto-typical father of theological liberalism: Schleiermacher.
 
Arminianism, starts in the error of a man-centered view, rather than an God-centered one, and is therefore more prone to error.
 
Historically, Calvinist denominations have fallen to liberalism just as Arminian ones have, so apparently not.
 
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