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See also:JEAN See also:ALPHONSE See also:TURRETIN (1671-1737) , son of the preceding, was See also:born at See also:Geneva on the 13th of See also:August 1671. He studied See also:theology at Geneva under L. Tronchin, and after travelling in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, See also:England and See also:France was received into the " See also:- VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)
Venerable Compagnie See also:des Pasteurs" of Geneva in 1693. Here he became pastor of the See also:Italian See also:congregation, and in 1697 See also:professor of See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church See also:history, and later (1705) of theology. During the next See also:forty years of his See also:life he enjoyed See also:great See also:influence in Geneva as the See also:advocate of a more liberal theology than had prevailed under the preceding See also:generation, and it was largely through his instrumentality that the See also:rule obliging ministers to subscribe to the See also:Formula Consensus Helvetica was abolished in 1706, and the Consensus itself renounced in 1725. He also wrote and laboured for the promotion of See also:union between the Reformed and Lutheran Churches, his most important See also:work in this connexion being Nubes testium See also:pro moderato et pacifico de See also:rebus theologicis judicio, et instituenda inter Protest antes See also:concordia (Geneva, 1729). Besides this he wrote Cogitationes et dissertationes theologicae, on the principles of natural and revealed See also:religion (2 vols., Geneva, 1737; in See also:French, Traite de la verite de la religion chretienne) and commentaries on See also:Thessalonians and See also:Romans. He died on the 1st of May 1737.
See E. de See also:Bude, See also:Francois et J. Alphonse Turretini (2 vols., I88o), and Lettres inedites a Jean Alphonse Turretini (3 vols., 1887–1888) ; F. Turretini, See also:Notice biographique sur See also:Benedict Turretini 0870; C. Borgeaud, Histoire de l'universite de Geneve (1900).
End of Article: JEAN ALPHONSE TURRETIN (1671-1737)
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