Louis Tronchin (theologian)

Louis Tronchin , latinized Ludovicus Tronchinus , (born December 4, 1629 in Geneva ; † September 8, 1705 ibid) was a Reformed theologian from Geneva.

Life

Tronchin was the son of the Geneva theologian and orientalist (professor at the Geneva Academy ) Théodore Tronchin (1582–1657). Tronchin studied theology in Geneva (1651), London, Leiden (1652) and in 1653/54 at the Protestant Academy in Saumur under Moyse Amyraut (although his father vehemently rejected his doctrine of predestination and hypothetical universalism ). In 1651 he was ordained and in 1654 pastor in Lyon (until 1661) and in 1662 professor of theology at the Geneva Academy. From 1698 to 1705 he was dean of the Compagnie des Pasteurs and from 1663 to 1668 rector of the academy. He was a corresponding member of the English Society for the Propagation of the Faith.

Teaching

Tronchin was a representative of the liberal movement of the Reformed Church and in 1669 rejected the oath that was required of candidates for spiritual offices in Geneva and obliged them not to seek any reforms in the Calvinist Church. He was also considered a supporter of Amyraut (against which the Consensus Helveticus was directed). So he was in the academy opponent, for example, of François Turrettini and Bénédict Calandrini . He was influenced by René Descartes and influenced his students Pierre Bayle and Jean-Alphonse Turrettini , who belonged to the Enlightenment. For fear of coming into conflict with the Orthodox Calvinists and being condemned, he hardly published anything.

Private

In 1663 he married Andrienne Le Fort, the daughter of a grocer. In 1686 he was married to the widow of Gédéon Girard des Bergeries, Susanne de la Rue, in his second marriage.

Fonts

• Disputatio de providentia Dei , Geneva 1670
• De auctoritate scriptura sacrae , 1677

Web links

• Toni Cetta / PTO: Tronchin, Louis. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge