Francis Turretin (1623-87) and the Reformed Tradition.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Conventions -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Scholarship on Turretin -- 2 Reformed Theology -- 3 The Humanism/Scholasticism Debate -- Chapter 2 Turretin's Early Life and Education -- Chapter 3 Turretin in Geneva -- Chapter 4 The Institutes of Elenctic Theology -- 1 The Historical Situation -- 1.1 Late-Medieval Theology -- 1.2 The Reformers -- 2 The Purpose of the Institutes -- 3 The Method -- 4 Theology -- Chapter 5 Turretin's Sermons, Disputations and the Formula -- 1 Sermons -- 2 Disputations -- 3 The Helvetic Formula Consensus -- Chapter 6 Publication History -- 1 The Institutes of Elenctic Theology -- 2 Disputations and Sermons -- Chapter 7 Turretin's Impact: The Eighteenth Century -- 1 Geneva -- 2 Scotland -- Chapter 8 Turretin's Impact: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 1 Twentieth Century -- Chapter 9 Conclusion -- Appendix List of Syndics of the Small Council of Geneva, 1650-99, in Order of First Election -- Select Bibliography -- Manuscript Sources -- Printed Book Sales Catalogs -- Printed Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Unpublished PhD Theses -- Modern Author Index -- Subject Index.

In Francis Turretin (1623-87) and the Reformed Tradition, Nicholas A. Cumming provides a biography of Turretin and an intellectual history of Turretin's major works. Cumming details, in particular, Turretin's influence among the Reformed in the early modern and modern periods.

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