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

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Election Select Bibliography Manuscript Sources Printed Book Sales Catalogs Printed Primary Sources Secondary Sources Unpublished PhD Theses Modern Author Index Subject Index In this biography of Reformed theologian Francis Turretin (1623–87), Nicholas A. Cumming provides critical context for the life and theology of this important seventeenth-century theologian and his impact on the Reformed tradition as a whole. Turretin has commonly been identified as a strict scholastic theologian; this work places Turretin in his broader context, analyzing his life and theology in terms of the political and religious aspects of post-Reformation Europe and his posthumous influence on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Reformed theology. This work begins with a biography of Turretin, including his education and ministry, then proceeds to the context of Turretin's theology in the early modern and modern periods, particularly in relation to his major work The Institutes of Elenctic Theology. Nicholas A. Cumming, Ph.D. (Kings College London, 2016), is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California. His most recent article was in Reformation and Renaissance Review on Francis Turretins doctrine of sin as the punishment of sin.