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JEAN ALPHONSE TURRETIN (1671-1737)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 483 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:ALPHONSE See also:TURRETIN (1671-1737)  , son of the preceding, was See also:born at See also:Geneva on the 13th of See also:August 1671 . He studied See also:theology at Geneva under L . Tronchin, and after travelling in See also:Holland, See also:England and See also:France was received into the " See also:Venerable Compagnie See also:des Pasteurs" of Geneva in 1693 . Here he became pastor of the See also:Italian See also:congregation, and in 1697 See also:professor of See also:church See also:history, and later (1705) of theology . During the next See also:forty years of his See also:life he enjoyed See also:great See also:influence in Geneva as the See also:advocate of a more liberal theology than had prevailed under the preceding See also:generation, and it was largely through his instrumentality that the See also:rule obliging ministers to subscribe to the See also:Formula Consensus Helvetica was abolished in 1706, and the Consensus itself renounced in 1725 . He also wrote and laboured for the promotion of See also:union between the Reformed and Lutheran Churches, his most important See also:work in this connexion being Nubes testium See also:pro moderato et pacifico de See also:rebus theologicis judicio, et instituenda inter Protest antes See also:concordia (Geneva, 1729) . Besides this he wrote Cogitationes et dissertationes theologicae, on the principles of natural and revealed See also:religion (2 vols., Geneva, 1737; in See also:French, Traite de la verite de la religion chretienne) and commentaries on See also:Thessalonians and See also:Romans . He died on the 1st of May 1737 . See E. de See also:Bude, See also:Francois et J . See also:Alphonse Turretini (2 vols., I88o), and Lettres inedites a See also:Jean Alphonse Turretini (3 vols., 1887–1888) ; F . Turretini, See also:Notice biographique sur See also:Benedict Turretini 0870; C . Borgeaud, Histoire de l'universite de Geneve (1900) .

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