Jean-Alphonse Turrettini (August 1671 – May 1737) was a theologian from the Republic of Geneva.Turrettini Jean-Alphonse
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. The son of François Turrettini, he was born at Geneva. He studied

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at Geneva under

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was received into the "Vénérable Compagnie des Pasteurs" of Geneva in 1693. Here he became pastor of the

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congregation, and in 1697 professor of

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, and later (1705) of theology. During the next forty years of his life he enjoyed great influence in Geneva as the advocate of a more liberal theology than had prevailed under the preceding generation, and it was largely through his instrumentality that the rule obliging ministers to subscribe to the Helvetic Consensus was abolished in 1706, and the Consensus itself renounced in 1725. He also wrote and labored for the promotion of union between the Reformed and

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Churches, his most important work in this connection being ''Nubes testium pro moderato et pacifico de rebus theologicis judicio, et instituenda inter Protestantes concordia'' (Geneva, 1729). Besides this he wrote ''Cogitationes et dissertationes theologicae'', on the principles of natural and revealed religion (2 vols., Geneva, 1737; in French, ''Traité de la vérité de la religion chrétienne'') and commentaries on ''Thessalonians'' and ''Romans''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Turrettini, Jean-Alphonse 1671 births 1737 deaths Theologians from the Republic of Geneva 18th-century clergy from the Republic of Geneva 18th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians