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THEODORE BEZA

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FRENCH PROTESTANT REFORMATION CLERGYMAN

THEODORE BEZA June 24, 1519 - October 13, 1605 Theodore Beza was born in Vezelay, France, his father the bailiff of the county. Adopted by his uncle after the death of his mother, tutored by Melchior Wolmar and attended the University of Orleans and received the degree of licentiate of the law. After a serious illness, he realized he held to Protestant beliefs, and he remembered the teachings of Wolmer. Embracing the Protestant cause, he left France with his wife and left for Switzerland. He associated with the Reformed church and became a lifelong friend of John Calvin. From 1549 to 1558 he was professor of Greek at Lausanne. In 1558 he became professor of Greek at Geneva and succeeded Calvin in the chair of theology at Geneva. He was considered the leader of the French Reformed and Huguenot adherents, he made many trips to France and attempted to reconcile the differences between the Catholic leadership and the Reformed congregations.

CLICK ON THE CITATION TO VIEW THE ARTICLE "A Brief Declaration Of The Table Of Predestination" "Also saith moreover: As he that hath received the gift, can better exhort and preach: so he that hath received this gift, doth hear the Preacher more obediently, & with greater reverence, &c. We do therefore exhort and preach, but they only which have ears to hear do hear us quietly, & to their comfort: and in those that have them not, this sentence is fulfilled, that hearing with their ears they do not hear, for they hear with the outward sense, but not with the inward consent. Now why some men have these ears, and others not, it is, because it is given to some to come, and to others not. Who knew God's counsel? must that be denied which is plain and evident, because that cannot be known which is hid and secret? " "Faith & Justification" "But, in this treatise, we shall especially consider the effects which He [the Holy Spirit] produces in the children of God; how, along with faith, He brings to them the graces of God to make them sensible of the efficacy and power of them (Rom 8:12-17; 1 Cor. 2:11,12; 1 John 4:13); in brief, how He brings them more and more to the end and goal to. which they have been predestinated before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:3-4)." "Jesus Christ The Son Of God" "Jesus Christ is therefore true God and true man (Matt 1:21-23, Luke 1:35). He has a true human soul, and a true human body formed from the substance of the virgin Mary, and by the power of the Holy Spirit. By this means, he was conceived and born of this virgin Mary, virgin, I say, before and after the birth. And all this was accomplished for our redemption." "That Which We Call The Word Of God: Its Two Parts -- Law And Gospel" "The majority of men, blinded by the just judgement of God, have indeed never seriously considered what curse the Law subjects us to, nor why it has been ordained by God. And, as for the Gospel, they have nearly always thought that it was nothing other than a second Law, more perfect than the first. From this has come the erroneous distinction between precept and advice; there has followed, little by little, the total ruin of the benefit of Jesus Christ."

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