REL 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Limited Atonement, Consubstantiation, Infant Baptism
5 Apr 2016
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Biography: early life, french native, humanist scholar, protestant conversion, sudden conversion (1532-1533?, nicolas cop, leader of humanists and rector at u. of paris, gives. Calvin, possible co-author, had to flee france with cop. 1536, institutes of the christian religion: originally a small handbook for reform totaling six chapters; overnight best seller, primary purpose was catechetical, 1559, 8th ed; 80 chapters. In geneva (1536-1538: attempted to set up model christian community. In strassburg (1538-1541: pastor to french refugees, return to geneva, 1541, set up holy commonwealth, picked up preaching where he left off to continue the reform where he left off, strict discipline. Penalties: fines to death; 1542-1546; 58 executed, 76 banished: opponents: michael servetus. 1531, wrote on the errors of the trinity. Calvin helped expose servetus to the inquisition; escaped. Servetus recognized in geneva; burned at the stake. Theology: tulip , foundation of all theology-sovereignty of god, tulip (five point calvinism; the use of the tulip developed by a later.
