Alexandre De Henseler 1935 2021 (1 results)

Series: Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, XCVI. Sq. 8vo. 198, [2] pp. Beige cloth, spine title stamped in black. Very good. Editor's copy. The Correspondence de Theodore de Beze was set up by a Geneva University Foundation and published by Librairie Droz. / Theodore de Beze, or Beza, was one of the most prominent figures in the Reform movement. He supported Calvin and succeeded him as moderator, i.e. president, of the Company of pastors in Geneva. He relentlessly defended the Calvinist doctrine, the discipline of the Church and its synodal-Presbyterian organization. He left noteworthy historic and literary writings. The only aim of his actions was to strengthen the Reform movement assaulted by Roman Catholicism and rivaled by German Lutheranism. He stayed in Lausanne until 1558 when he settled down in Geneva, where he taught theology and law. He became Calvin's right-hand man. / Hippolyte Aubert was the former director of the public library of Geneva. Henri Meylan.…