Giovanni Calvino e Pier Martire Vermigli nel giudizio dei loro contemporanei, nel loro epistolario e nelle loro opere
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Keywords
- Emidio Campi
- John Calvin and Peter Martyr Vermigli in the opinion of their contemporaries
- in their letters
- in their works The paper analyses the relationship between John Calvin and Peter Martyr Vermigli
- examining the biographical accounts of the two reformers written by Théodore de Bèze (Vie de Calvin
- 1564) and Josia Simler (Oratio de vita et obitu Petri Martyris Vermilii
- 1563)
- their correspondence
- and their exegetical works
- in particular the commentaries on Genesis. In addition
- the paper focuses on some theological themes that they had in common (Predestination
- Eucharist)
- concentrating on the ecclesiology. While Calvin identifies the marks of the Church as the Word and Sacrament and considers church discipline as an indispensable organizational instrument
- Vermigli throughout his writing explicitly numbers the discipline among the distinctive signes of the church. He considers the use of discipline
- that he calls «evangelii regula de correctione»
- to the extreme consequences â€
- “
- damnation and excommunication. It is Vermigli
- rather than Calvin
- who offers the arguments for the inclusion of discipline among the notae ecclesiae in some Reformed confessions such as the Belgian Confession (1561) or the Westminster Confession (1648)
