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Louis Tronchin (born at Geneva Dec. 4, 1629; died there Sept. 8, 1705) was a Genevan
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theologian and the son of Théodore Tronchin.


Life

He studied at the Protestant
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under
Moses Amyraut Moïse Amyraut (Latin: Moyses Amyraldus; September 1596 – 8 January 1664), in English texts often Moses Amyraut, was a French Huguenot, Reformed theologian and metaphysician. He was the architect of Amyraldism, a Calvinist doctrine that made ...
, whose "hypothetical universalism" had been vehemently contested by Tronchin the elder; he became pastor of the congregation of Lyons in 1656; and professor of theology at the
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in 1661, in which position he represented the liberal trend and advocated tolerance. In 1669 he demanded the abolition of the oath that was imposed on all candidates n theology not to attempt any innovations in the Calvinist doctrine.


Works

His works were: * ''Disputatio de providentia Dei'' (Geneva, 1670) * ''De auctoritate Scripturæ Sacræ'' (1677)


Bibliography

* Eugene Haag and Émile Haag
''La France protestante''
vol. ix, P 225.. 2d ed., Paris, 1877 sqq.; * J. Gaberel
''Histoire de l'Église de Geneve''
vol. iii., Geneva, 1862 * Charles Borgeaud
''L'Academie de Calvin''
Geneva, 1900 * Frédéric Auguste Lichtenberger
''Encyclopédie des sciences religieuses''
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