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	'''Francis Turretin''' (17 October 1623 – 28 September 1687; also known as '''François Turretini''' and '''Francis Turrettin''') was a Swiss-Italian [[Reformed scholastic]] theologian.		'''Francis Turretin''' (17 October 1623 – 28 September 1687; also known as '''François Turretini''' and '''Francis Turrettin''') was a Swiss-Italian [[Reformed scholastic]] theologian.

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'''Francis Turretin''' (17 October 1623 – 28 September 1687; also known as '''François Turretini''' and '''Francis Turrettin''') was a Swiss-Italian [[Reformed scholastic]] theologian.

Turretin is especially known as a zealous opponent of the [[theology]] of the [[Academy of Saumur]] (embodied by [[Moise Amyraut]] and called [[Amyraldianism]]), as an earnest defender of the [[Calvinism|Calvinistic]] [[orthodoxy]] represented by the [[Synod of Dort]], and as one of the [[authors]] of the ''[[Helvetic Consensus]]'', which defended the formulation of [[predestination]] from the Synod of Dort and the verbal [[Biblical inspiration|inspiration]] of the [[Bible]].

==Life==

He was the grandson of Francesco Turrettini, who left his native [[Lucca]] in 1574 and settled in [[Geneva, Switzerland|Geneva]] in 1592. Francis was born to [[Benoit Turretin]] at Geneva on 17 October 1623 and died there on 28 September 1687. He studied theology at Geneva (1640-1644), [[Leiden]] (1644), [[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]], Paris (1645-1646), [[Saumur]] (1646-1648), [[Montauban]], and [[Nîmes]].{{citation needed|date=April 2013}} In Paris he also studied philosophy under Roman Catholic [[Pierre Gassendi]]. Returning to his native city, he was made pastor of the Italian church there from 1648 to 1687, of the French congregation from 1653-1687, and professor of [[theology]] at the [[Academy of Geneva]] in 1653. He is the father of [[Jean Alphonse Turretin]], who would do much to dismantle the theology his father promoted.

==Works==

His ''Institutio Theologiae Elencticae'' (3 parts, Geneva, 1679–1685) was the culmination of [[Reformed scholasticism]]. The ''Institutes'' uses the [[scholasticism|scholastic]] method to dispute a number of controversial issues. In it he defended the view that the Bible is God's verbally [[Biblical inspiration|inspired word]]. He also argued for [[infralapsarianism]] and [[federal theology]]. The ''Institutes'' was widely used as a textbook, up to its use at [[Princeton Theological Seminary]] by the [[Princeton theologians]] only to be replaced by [[Charles Hodge]]'s ''Systematic Theology'' in the late 19th century. Of his other [[disputation]]s, his most important are ''De Satisfactione Christi disputationes'' (1666) and ''De necessaria secessione nostra ab Ecclesia Romana et impossibili cum ea syncretismo'' (published in 1687). He wrote the ''[[Helvetic Consensus]]'', a [[Reformed confession]] written against [[Amyraldianism]], with [[J. H. Heidegger]] in 1675.

Turretin greatly influenced the [[Puritan]]s, but until recently, he was a mostly forgotten [[Protestant]] [[scholasticism|scholastic]] from the annals of [[History of Christianity|church history]], though the English translation of his ''Institutes of Elenctic Theology'' is increasingly read by students of theology. [[John Gerstner]] called Turretin "the most precise theologian in the [[Calvinism|Calvinistic]] tradition."

=== English translations===
* ''Institutes of Elenctic Theology''. Translated by George Musgrave Giger, edited by James T. Dennison, Jr. (1992). ISBN 0-87552-451-6
* ''Justification'' an excerpt from Turretin's ''Institutes'' (2004). ISBN 0-87552-705-1
* ''The Atonement of Christ''. Translated by James R. Willson (1978). ISBN 0-8010-8842-9

==Notes==

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book|editor1-last=Carey|editor1-first=Patrick W.|editor2-last=Lienhard|editor2-first=Joseph T.|title=Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians|year=2000|location=Westport, CT|publisher=Greenwood Press{{Subscription required |via=[[Questia]]}}|isbn=|accessdate=13 April 2013|ref=harv|chapter=TURRETIN, FRANČOIS|last=Spencer|first=Stephen R.|url=http://www.questia.com/library/1907693/biographical-dictionary-of-christian-theologians}}

''This article includes content derived from the [[public domain]] '''Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge''', 1914.''

==External links==
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=RiQ2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA529 ''Brief Biography of Turretin''] - a brief biography of Francis Turretin based on an oral address given by his nephew, and translated into English
* Excerpts from Turretin's ''Institutes'' in English:
** [http://www.apuritansmind.com/puritan-favorites/francis-turretin/the-scriptures/ "The Holy Scriptures"] - on the Bible
** [http://www.apuritansmind.com/puritan-favorites/francis-turretin/forensic-justification/ "Forensic Justification"] - on how one is made right with [[God]]
**[http://www.apuritansmind.com/puritan-favorites/francis-turretin/predestination/ "On Predestination of the Elect of God"]
* [http://scdc.library.ptsem.edu/mets/mets.aspx?src=BR1848203&div=5&img=1 Article on the Turretin family and the ''Institutes''] from the ''Princeton Review'' (July 1848)
* [http://www.apuritansmind.com/puritan-favorites/francis-turretin/covenant-concepts-turretin/ "Covenant Concepts in Francis Turretin's ''Institutes of Elenctic Theology''"] by C. Matthew McMahon
* [https://ecom.ligonier.org/ecom/product.asp?idProduct=TUR01AC "Turretin on Justification"] an audio series by John Gerstner, long-time professor of church history.

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