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Pierre Jurieu

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Pierre Jurieu , 1637–1713, French Calvinist theologian. He was (1674–81) professor at Sedan. In 1681 in an attempt to preserve Huguenot liberties he published anonymously La Politique du clergé de France; his authorship soon became known, and he left France. From 1681 he was pastor of the Walloon Church in Rotterdam, writing in behalf of the French Reformed Church and giving aid to exiles from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. His controversial works, often bitter and aggressive, were directed against such contemporaries as Antoine Arnauld, Bishop Bossuet, Archbishop Fénélon, and Pierre Bayle. Important writings are the Pastoral Letters Addressed to the Faithful in France (1686, tr. 1689) and Critical History of Dogmas and Cults (1704, tr. 1705).

Bibliography: See G. H. Dodge, The Political Theory of the Huguenots of the Dispersion (1947).

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Jurieu, Pierre (1637–1713), French Calvinist controversialist. In 1674 he became professor of theology and Hebrew at the Protestant Academy at Sedan; when this was closed in 1681 he became minister in the Walloon church at Rotterdam. His Traité de la dévotion (1675; Eng. tr., 1692) had a huge circulation. His many works of controversy are energetic and not always orthodox. His Traité de la puissance de l'Église (1677) uses juridical arguments to vindicate the Calvinist view of authority in the Church. A tireless worker for all aspects of the Calvinist cause, he dominated the French refugee community in the Netherlands. His Letters pastorales, published fortnightly from 1686 to 1689, record the suffering and constancy of the Protestants in France.

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