Geneva's "enlightened orthodoxy": the middle way of Jacob Vernet (1698-1789).

From: Church History | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: Sorkin, David | Copyright information

Jacob Vernet (1698-1789) numbers among those eighteenth-century theologians whose relationships to the philosophes have saved them from being forgotten but at the cost of being misrepresented. Vernet is usually remembered for editing the first edition of Montesquieu's De l'esprit des lois, helping to restore Rousseau to Calvinism, and corresponding and then crossing swords with D'Alembert and Voltaire: it is especially the controversy with D'Alembert surrounding the article on "Gen...

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