Reformed Anglicans

13 October 1605 A.D.   Theodore Beza Dies—Calvin’s Successor, Theologian, Anchor of Reformed Theology in Europe, and the Man Hated by the Archgoat Willy Laud of Canterbury No author. “Theodore Beza: Reformed Theologian.” Protestant Reformed Churches.   N.d.   http://www.prca.org/books/portraits/beza.htm .   Accessed 31 May 2014.    Chapter 26   Theodore Beza: Reformed Theologian                                                                     Introduction Few Reformers have been as much maligned as Theodore Beza, Calvin's successor in Geneva. The slanders against him came in his own lifetime from his Ro...

13 October 1605 A.D.   Theodore Beza Dies—Calvin’s Successor, Theologian & Anchor of Reformed Theology in Europe Editors. “Theodore Beza.” Encyclopedia Britannica.     N.d.   http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/63792/Theodore-Beza .   Accessed 31 May 2014.   Theodore Beza ,  French Théodore de Bèze (born June 24, 1519,  Vézelay , France —died October 13, 1605,  Geneva , Switzerland ), author, translator, educator, and theologian who assisted and later succeeded John Calvin as a leader of the Protestant Reformation centred at Geneva. After studying law at Orléans, France (1535–39), Beza established a practice in Paris, where he published Juvenilia (1548), a volume of amorous verse that earned him a reputation as a leading Latin poet. On recovering from a serious illness, he underwent a conversion experience and in 1548 traveled to Geneva to join Calvin , then deeply involved with his reforms of Swiss political and e...