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 Wiki offers the following. 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 . Contents 1 Life 2 Works 2.1 English translations 3 Notes 4 Bibliography 5 External links Life He was the grandson of Francesco Turrettin...