Jean-Alphonse Turrettini

Jean-Alphonse Turrettini (August 1671 – May 1737) was a theologian from the Republic of Geneva.[1]

Jean-Alphonse Turrettini.

The son of François Turrettini, he was born at Geneva. He studied theology at Geneva under Louis Tronchin (de), and after travelling in Holland, England and France was received into the "Vénérable Compagnie des Pasteurs" of Geneva in 1693. Here he became pastor of the Italian congregation, and in 1697 professor of church history, and later (1705) of theology.[2]

During the next forty years of his life he enjoyed great influence in Geneva as the advocate of a more liberal theology than had prevailed under the preceding generation, and it was largely through his instrumentality that the rule obliging ministers to subscribe to the Helvetic Consensus was abolished in 1706, and the Consensus itself renounced in 1725. He also wrote and labored for the promotion of union between the Reformed and Lutheran Churches, his most important work in this connection being Nubes testium pro moderato et pacifico de rebus theologicis judicio, et instituenda inter Protestantes concordia (Geneva, 1729). Besides this he wrote Cogitationes et dissertationes theologicae, on the principles of natural and revealed religion (2 vols., Geneva, 1737; in French, Traité de la vérité de la religion chrétienne) and commentaries on Thessalonians and Romans.[2]

References

Turrettini Jean-Alphonse, in the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Turretin". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 483.

External links

Works by Jean-Alphonse Turrettini at Post-Reformation Digital Library

Academic offices
Preceded by Louis Tronchin Benedict Pictet Bénédict Calandrini (de) (fr)	Chair of theology at the Genevan Academy 1705-1737 With: Benedict Pictet (1705-1724) Bénédict Calandrini (de) (fr) (1705-1720) Antoine Léger (II) (1713-1719) Samuel Turrettini (1719-1727) Antoine Maurice, I (fr) (1724-1737) Jacob Bessonnet (1727-1737)	Succeeded by Antoine Maurice, I (fr) Jacob Bessonnet Louis Tronchin (II)

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[1] Turrettini Jean-Alphonse, in the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

[EB1911-2] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Turretin". Encyclopædia Britannica. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 483.