Theodore Beza

Theodore Beza (Theodore de Beze or de Besze) (June 24, 1519 - October 13, 1605) was a French Protestant Christian theologian and scholar who played an important role in the early Reformation. He was closely associated with Calvinism. He lived most of his adult life in Switzerland.

Theological Works

But all these humanistic and historical studies

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ire surpassed by his theological productions

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(contained in Tractationes theologicae). In these Beza

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appears the perfect pupil or the alter

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ego of Calvin. His view of life is

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deterministic and the basis of his

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religious thinking is the predestinate

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recognition of the necessity of all temporal

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existence as an effect of the absolute,

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eternal, and immutable will of God, so that even

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the fall of the human race appears to him essential

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to the divine plan of the world. In most lucid

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manner Beza shows in tabular form the connection

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of the religious views which emanated from thin

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fundamental supralapsarian mode of thought.

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This he added to his highly instructive treatise

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Summa totius Christianismi.

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