Institutes of Elenctic Theology (3 Volume Set)

3496 Pages·1997·16.426 MB·English

by  Francis Turretin, James T. Dennison (editor)

Table of Contents
Institutes of Elenctic Theology (Vol 1)
Institutes of Elenctic Theology
Table of Contents
Tables of Abbreviations and Transliteration
Hebrew Transliteration Table
Greek Transliteration Table
Scripture Abbreviations
Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Turretin’s Dedication
Turretin’s Preface to the Reader
FIRST TOPIC: Theology
SECOND TOPIC: The Holy Scriptures
THIRD TOPIC: The One and Triune God
FOURTH TOPIC: The Decrees of God in General and
Predestination in Particular
FIFTH TOPIC: Creation
SIXTH TOPIC: The Actual Providence of God
SEVENTH TOPIC: Angels
EIGHTH TOPIC: The State of Man Before the Fall and
the Covenant of Nature
NINTH TOPIC: Sin in General and in Particular
TENTH TOPIC: The Free Will of Man in a State of Sin
Institutes of Elenctic Theology (Vol 2)
Institutes of Elenctic Theology
Table of Contents
ELEVENTH TOPIC: The Law of God
TWELFTH TOPIC: The Covenant of Grace and Its
Twofold Economy in the Old and New Testaments
THIRTEENTH TOPIC: The Person and State of Christ
FOURTEENTH TOPIC: The Mediatorial Office of
Christ
FIFTEENTH TOPIC: Calling and Faith
SIXTEENTH TOPIC: Justification
SEVENTEENTH TOPIC: Sanctification and Good
Works
Institutes of Elenctic Theology (Vol 3)
Institutes of Elenctic Theology
Table of Contents
EIGHTEENTH TOPIC: The Church
NINETEENTH TOPIC: The Sacraments
TWENTIETH TOPIC: The Last Things
The Life and Career of Francis Turretin
Funeral Oration of Benedict Pictet Concerning the Life
and Death of Francis Turretin
George Musgrave Giger: A Biographical Sketch
Sources for the Life of George Musgrave Giger
Biographical Dictionary
Index of Proper Names
Index of Subjects
Index of Scripture and Apocrypha
Index of Significant Hebrew Words
Index of Significant Greek Words
Index of Works Cited

I E T
NSTITUTES OF LENCTIC HEOLOGY

BY
Francis Turretin

Pastor in the Church and Academy of Geneva and S. S. Professor of
Theology

TRANSLATED BY
George Musgrave Giger

Princeton University

EDITED BY
James T. Dennison, Jr.

Westminster Theological Seminary in California
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The editor acknowledges permission from the following publishers to use
excerpts from their publications:
Baker Book House, for material from Francis Turretin, The Doctrine of
Scripture. Translated and edited by John W. Beardslee III. Grand Rapids,
Michigan, 1981.
Harvard University Press, for material from the Loeb Classical Library.
Horace: Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica. Translated by H. Rushton
Fairclough. 1929.
Juvenal and Persius. Translated by G.G. Ramsey. 1979.
Ovid: Fasti. Translated by James G. Frazer. 1976.
Prudentius. Translated by H.J. Thomson. 1949.
Hesiod. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. 1914.
Cicero, De Natura Deorum. Translated by H. Rackham. 1972.
———. De Senectute, De Amicitia, De Divinitatione. Translated by
William A. Falconer. 1971.
Pliny, Natural History. Translated by H. Rackham. 1967.
Virgil. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough. 1974.
Seneca, Moral Essays. Translated by John W. Basore. 1970.
The editor acknowledges permission from Harvard University Press to use
excerpts from the Loeb Classical Library.
Juvenal and Persius. Translated by G.G. Ramsey. 1979.
Seneca, Moral Essays. Translated by John W. Basore. 1970.
Virgil, Aeneid. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough. 1974.
Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars. Translated by J.C. Rolfe. 1970.
Ovid, Fasti. Translated by James G. Frazer. 1976.
All Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Turrettini, François, 1623–1687.
[Institutio theologiae elencticae. English]
Institutes of elenctic theology / by Francis Turretin; translated by
George Musgrave Giger; edited by James T. Dennison, Jr.
p. cm.
Translation of: Institutio theologiae elencticae.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents: v. 1. First through tenth topics.
—v. 2. Eleventh through seventeenth topics.
—v. 3. Eighteenth through twentieth topics.
ISBN-10: 0-87552-451-6 (v. 1)
ISBN-13: 978-0-87552-451-1 (v. 1)
ISBN-10: 0-87552-452-4 (v. 2)
ISBN-13: 978-0-87552-452-8 (v. 2)
ISBN-10: 0-87552-453-2 (v. 3)
ISBN-13: 978-0-87552-453-5 (v. 3)
1. Reformed Church—Doctrines—Early works to 1800. 2. Theology,
Doctrinal—Early works to 1800. 3. Catholic Church—Controversial
literature—Early works to 1800. I. Giger, George Musgrave, 1822–1865.
II. Dennison, James T., 1943–. III. Title.
BX9421.T7913 1992
230′.42—dc20
92-10128
F T
RANCIS URRETIN
Photograph from the frontispiece of volume 1 of Turretin’s Institutio
theologiae elencticae (1696), courtesy of La Bibliothèque publique et
universitaire de Genève.
To
SHARON LYNN
Quam pulchra es amica mea!
Quam pulchra es!
Quam pulchra es, et quam decora,
Carissima, in deliciis!
Primogenito filio, J. T.
et
Primogenitae filiae, Kristin
Laudemus novissimum Agnum!
Meo filio, Bryan
et
Meae filiae, Autumn
Laudemus novissimum Pastorem!
T C
ABLE OF ONTENTS
Tables of Abbreviations and Transliteration
Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Turretin’s Dedication
Turretin’s Preface to the Reader
F T : T
IRST OPIC HEOLOGY
Question I. Should the word “theology” be used in the Christian schools,
and in how many ways can it be understood?
II. Whether there is a theology and its divisions
III. Whether natural theology may be granted
IV. Is natural theology sufficient for salvation; or is there a common
religion by which all promiscuously may be saved? We deny
against the Socinians and Remonstrants

THE OBJECT OF THEOLOGY
V. Are God and divine things the objects of theology? We affirm

THE GENUS OF THEOLOGY
VI. What is the genus of theology?
VII. Is theology theoretical or practical?
VIII. Is human reason the principle and rule by which the doctrines of the
Christian religion and theology (which are the objects of faith)
ought to be measured? We deny against the Socinians
IX. Does any judgment belong to reason in matters of faith? Or is there no
use at all for it?
X. May the judgment of contradiction be allowed to human reason in
matters of faith? We affirm