André Rivet
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André Rivet (August 1572 – January 7, 1651) was a French Huguenot
theologian.
, 43 km (27 mi) southwest of Poitiers
, France
. After completing his education at Berne
, he studied theology privately at Berne and La Rochelle
, and from 1595 to 1620 was at Thouars
, first as chaplain of the duke of La Trémouille and later as pastor. In 1617 he was elected president of the Synod at Vitré
; and in 1620 he was called to Leyden as professor of theology.
In 1632 Stadholder Frederick Henry appointed Rivet tutor of his son, later William II, while the university made him honorary professor. In 1641 he attended the prince on his visit to England, and in 1646 was appointed curator of the educational institution in Breda
, where he passed the remainder of his life and died.
.
His numerous writings are divided among the provinces of polemics, exegesis, dogmatics, and edification. They were collected in three volumes (Rotterdam, 1651-53), the most important being the Isagoge ad scripturam sacram Veteris et Novi Testamenti (Dort, 1616).
Other works:
Huguenot
The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
theologian.
Life
He was born at Saint-MaixentSaint-Maixent
Saint-Maixent is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays-de-la-Loire in north-western France.-References:*...
, 43 km (27 mi) southwest of Poitiers
Poitiers
Poitiers is a city on the Clain river in west central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and of the Poitou-Charentes region. The centre is picturesque and its streets are interesting for predominant remains of historical architecture, especially from the Romanesque...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. After completing his education at Berne
Berne
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, he studied theology privately at Berne and La Rochelle
La Rochelle
La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department.The city is connected to the Île de Ré by a bridge completed on 19 May 1988...
, and from 1595 to 1620 was at Thouars
Thouars
Thouars is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France.It is on the River Thouet. Its inhabitants are known as Thouarsais.-History:...
, first as chaplain of the duke of La Trémouille and later as pastor. In 1617 he was elected president of the Synod at Vitré
Vitré
Vitré may refer to communes in France:* Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine* Vitré, Deux-Sèvres...
; and in 1620 he was called to Leyden as professor of theology.
In 1632 Stadholder Frederick Henry appointed Rivet tutor of his son, later William II, while the university made him honorary professor. In 1641 he attended the prince on his visit to England, and in 1646 was appointed curator of the educational institution in Breda
Breda
Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. As a fortified city, the city was of strategic military and political significance...
, where he passed the remainder of his life and died.
Works
A rigid Calvinist and an uncompromising enemy of the Roman Catholic Church, Rivet was in his day the most influential member of the theological faculty of Leyden; and together with his colleagues he drew up, in 1625, the Synopsis purioris theologiae, which discussed the entire field of Reformed dogmatics in fifty-two disputations. At Leyden Rivet also worked on Old Testament exegesisExegesis
Exegesis is a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text. Traditionally the term was used primarily for exegesis of the Bible; however, in contemporary usage it has broadened to mean a critical explanation of any text, and the term "Biblical exegesis" is used...
.
His numerous writings are divided among the provinces of polemics, exegesis, dogmatics, and edification. They were collected in three volumes (Rotterdam, 1651-53), the most important being the Isagoge ad scripturam sacram Veteris et Novi Testamenti (Dort, 1616).
Other works:
- Le Resveille-matin des ministres, response aux demandes de J. Christi, chanoine théologal de Nantes,1600
- Eschantillons des principaux paradoxes de la Papauté, 1603
- Défense de la liberté chrestienne en l’usage sobre des viandes, contre la doctrine de la papauté maintenue par Georges l'Apostre, en son traité du Quaresme, 1605
- Démonstration de la vanité des causes et raisons par lesquelles Olivier Enguerrand, autrefois cordelier, depuis ministre en l'Eglise réformée de Chef-Boulonne et maintenant apostat, prétend colorer sa perfidie ; pour response à la déclaration qu'il a naguères publiée, Saumur, 1607
- Le catholique orthodoxe opposé au catholique papiste, Saumur, 1616 (compilation of Sommaire et abrégé des controverses de nostre temps touchant la religion (1608) and Triomphe de la vérité, en suite du Sommaire des controverses (1610))
- La Défense des deux épistres et de la préface du livre de Ph. De Mornay intitulé: Le Mystère d'iniquité, 1612
- Critici sacri specimen, hoc est censurae doctorum tam ex orthodocis quam ex pontificis in scripta quae Patribus plerisque priscorum et pluriorum saeculorum vel affinxit incogitantia, vel supposuit impostura, accedunt prolegomena de patrum autoritate, errorum causis et nothorum notis, 1612
- Remarques et considérations sur la Response de Coëffeteau au Mystère d'iniquité (1615-1617)
- Oratio de bono pacis et concordiae in Eecclesia, 1620
- Meditationes XII in selecta aliquot Scripturae loca, 1622
- Statera quâ ponderatur Mantissae Laurentii Foreri jesuitae OEnipontani, Sectio una quam emisit adversus libellum cui titulus est Mysteria Patrum jesuitarum (under the name of Renatus Verdœus), 1627
- Lettres escrites à Madame de la Trémoille sur le changement de religion de M. le duc de la Trémoille, 1629
- Disputationes XIII de justâ et gratiosâ Dei dispensatione circa salutem generis humani, 1631
- Commentarius in Jonam ; Praelectiones in cap. XX Exodi, 1632
- Oratio habito in auditorio solemni, 1632
- Exhortations de repentance et recognoissance, faites au sujet du siège de Maëstricht, 1632
- Theologicae et scolasticae excercitationes CXC in Genesim, 1633
- De origine Sabbathi, 1633
- Meditationes in VII psalmos poenitentiales, 1634
- Commentarii in librum secundum Mosis, qui exodus apud Graecos inscribitur, 1634
- Instruction préparatoire à la saincte cène; avec cinq prédications convenables en la matière, Leyde, 1634
- Jesuita vapulans, 1635
- Divers traités de piété sur quelques occasions du temps présent, 1637
- Méditation sur le Psaume XCI, pour servir d’antidote contre la peste et de précaution contre tous les dangers; avec une lettre sur la question s’il est loisible de s’éloigner des lieux infectés, 1638
- Suspiria poenitensis afflicti, 1638
- Apologia pro sanctissimâ Virgine Mariâ, 1639
- Les derniers vœux du Sacrificateur éternel, compris en sa prière contenue au XVIIe chapitre de saint Jehan, exposée en XVIII sermons, et une paraphrase; avec quelques autres petits traités, 1639
- Instruction chrestienne touchant les spectacles publics des comoedies et tragoedies, 1639
- Response à trois lettres du Sieur de la Milletière sur les moyens de réunion en la religion; avec la défense de Rivet contre les calomnies du Sr de la Milletière en son Catholique réformé, 1642
- Instruction du prince chrestien, 1642
- Animadversiones in Higonis Grotii annotata in Cassandri consultationem, 1642
- Examen animadversionum Grotii pro sui notis ad consultationem Cassandri, 1642
- Apologeticus pro suo de verae et sincerae pacis ecclesiae proposito, contra Grotii votum,1643
- Decretum synodi Carentone habitae anno 1644, 1644
- Commentarius in Paslmorum propheticorum de mysteriis evangelicis dodecadem selectam, 1645
- Grotianae discussionis διάλυσις, 1646
- Apologia pro Hieronymi sententiâ de episcopis et presbyteris, 1646
- Question scélèbre s’il est nécessaire ou non que les filles soient sçavantes, Paris, 1646
- Epistolae apologeticae ad criminationes Amyraldi de gratiâ universali, 1648 (co-written with his brother Guillaume Rivet)
- Sur le chapitre XII de l’Epitre aux Romains, 1648
- Synopsis doctrinae de naturâ et gratiâ, excerpta ex Amyraldi tractatude predestinatione, 1649
- Lupi servati presbytari, viri doctissimi, qui ante annos 800, in Galliâ vixit de tribus questionnibus, 1650 (under the name of Renatus de Viraeus)
- La bonne vieillesse, représentée en une lettre latine d’A. Rivet à G. Rivet, son frère, et par lui traduite en français, 1652