Emidio Campi

Giovanni Calvino e Pier Martire Vermigli nel giudizio dei loro contemporanei, nel loro epistolario e nelle loro opere

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  • Emidio Campi
  • John Calvin and Peter Martyr Vermigli in the opinion of their contemporaries
  • in their letters
  • in their works The paper analyses the relationship between John Calvin and Peter Martyr Vermigli
  • examining the biographical accounts of the two reformers written by Théodore de Bèze (Vie de Calvin
  • 1564) and Josia Simler (Oratio de vita et obitu Petri Martyris Vermilii
  • 1563)
  • their correspondence
  • and their exegetical works
  • in particular the commentaries on Genesis. In addition
  • the paper focuses on some theological themes that they had in common (Predestination
  • Eucharist)
  • concentrating on the ecclesiology. While Calvin identifies the marks of the Church as the Word and Sacrament and considers church discipline as an indispensable organizational instrument
  • Vermigli throughout his writing explicitly numbers the discipline among the distinctive signes of the church. He considers the use of discipline
  • that he calls «evangelii regula de correctione»
  • to the extreme consequences â€
  • damnation and excommunication. It is Vermigli
  • rather than Calvin
  • who offers the arguments for the inclusion of discipline among the notae ecclesiae in some Reformed confessions such as the Belgian Confession (1561) or the Westminster Confession (1648)

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