28 September 1687 A.D. Francis Turretin Dies—Swiss-Italian Reformed Theologian
28 September 1687 A.D.
Francis Turretin
Dies—Swiss-Italian Reformed Theologian
A brief biography is available
at: http://books.google.com/books?id=RiQ2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA529#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Francis Turretin (17 October 1623 – 28 September 1687; also known as François Turretini and Francis Turrettin) was a Swiss-Italian
Reformed scholastic theologian.
Turretin is especially known as a zealous opponent of the
theology of the Academy of Saumur
(embodied by Moise Amyraut and called Amyraldianism), as an earnest defender of the Calvinistic orthodoxy represented by the Synod
of Dort, and as one of the authors of the Helvetic Consensus, which defended the formulation of predestination from the Synod of Dort and the verbal inspiration of
the Bible.
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Life
He was the grandson of Francesco Turrettini, who left his
native Lucca in 1574 and settled in Geneva in
1592. Francis was born to Benoit
Turretin[citation needed] at Geneva on October 17, 1623 and died there on September
28, 1687. He studied theology at Geneva (1640-1644), Leiden (1644), Utrecht, Paris (1645-1646), Saumur (1646-1648),[1] Montauban, and Nîmes.[citation needed] In Paris he also studied philosophy under Roman Catholic
Pierre Gassendi. Returning to his
native city, he was made pastor of the Italian church there from 1648 to 1687,
of the French congregation from 1653-1687, and professor of theology at the Academy of Geneva in
1653.[1] He is the father of Jean Alphonse
Turretin, who would do much to dismantle the theology his father
promoted.[2]
Works
His Institutio Theologiae Elencticae (3 parts,
Geneva, 1679–1685) was the culmination of Reformed
scholasticism. The Institutes uses the scholastic method to dispute a number of controversial issues. In it he defended the
view that the Bible is God's verbally inspired word. He
also argued for infralapsarianism and
federal theology.
The Institutes was widely used as a textbook, up to its use at Princeton
Theological Seminary by the Princeton theologians only to be replaced by Charles
Hodge's Systematic Theology in the late 19th century.
Of his other disputations, his most important
are De Satisfactione Christi disputationes (1666) and De necessaria
secessione nostra ab Ecclesia Romana et impossibili cum ea syncretismo
(published in 1687). He wrote the Helvetic Consensus, a Reformed confession written against Amyraldianism, with J.
H. Heidegger in 1675.[2]
Turretin greatly influenced the Puritans, but until recently, he was a mostly forgotten Protestant scholastic from the annals of church history, though the English translation of his Institutes of Elenctic Theology
is increasingly read by students of theology. John
Gerstner called Turretin "the most precise theologian in the
Calvinistic tradition."[citation needed]
English translations
Institutes of Elenctic Theology. Translated by George Musgrave Giger,
edited by James T. Dennison, Jr. (1992). ISBN 0-87552-451-6
Justification an excerpt from Turretin's Institutes
(2004). ISBN 0-87552-705-1
The Atonement of Christ. Translated by James R. Willson (1978). ISBN 0-8010-8842-9
Notes
Bibliography
Spencer, Stephen R.
(2000). "TURRETIN, FRANČOIS". In Carey, Patrick
W.; Lienhard, Joseph T. Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press – via Questia (subscription required).
Retrieved 13 April 2013.
This article includes
content derived from the public domain Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of
Religious Knowledge, 1914.
External links
Brief Biography of Turretin - a brief biography of Francis Turretin based
on an oral address given by his nephew, and translated into English
Excerpts from Turretin's Institutes
in English:
"The Holy Scriptures" - on the Bible
Article on the Turretin family and the Institutes from the Princeton Review (July
1848)
"Covenant Concepts in Francis
Turretin's Institutes of Elenctic Theology" by C. Matthew McMahon
"Turretin on Justification" an audio series by John Gerstner,
long-time professor of church history.
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