Francis Turretin (1623-87) and the Reformed Tradition (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

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In Francis Turretin (1623-87) and the Reformed Tradition, Nicholas A. Cumming provides a biography of Turretin and an intellectual history of Turretins major works. Cumming details, in particular, Turretins influence among the Reformed in the early modern and modern periods. 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Election Select Bibliography Manuscript Sources Printed Book Sales Catalogs Printed Primary Sources Secondary Sources Unpublished PhD Theses Modern Author Index Subject Index