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See also:FRANCOIS See also:TURRETIN (1623-1687) , son of the preceding, was See also:born at See also:Geneva on the 17th of See also:October 1623 . After studying See also:theology in Geneva, See also:Leiden and See also:France, he became pastor of the See also:Italian See also:congregation in Geneva in 1647; after a brief pastorate at See also:Lyons he again returned to Geneva as See also:professor of theology in 1653, having modestly declined a professorship of See also:philosophy in 1650 . He was one of the most influential supporters of the See also:Formula Consensus Helvetica, See also:drawn up chiefly by Johann Heinrich See also:Heidegger (1633-1698), in 1675, and of the particular type of Calvinistic theology which that See also:symbol embodied, and an opponent of the theology of See also:Moses See also:Amyraut and the school of See also:Saumur . His Institutio theologicae elencticae (3 vols., Geneva 1680-1683) has passed through frequent See also:editions, the last reprint having been made in See also:Edinburgh in 1847-1848 . He was also the author of volumes entitled De satisfactione Christi disputationes (Geneva, 1666) and De necessaria secessione nostra ab See also:ecclesia See also:romana (Geneva, 1687) . He died on the 28th of See also:September 1687 . |
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