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136:-speaking preachers in the 16th century. Above all he was the reformer of the city of Lausanne, where he converted the local population to the Reformed faith. In his time, Lausanne and Geneva became training grounds for Reformation preachers. Among those who studied in Lausanne was the author of the
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notes that "Viret, unlike Calvin, was ready to extend openly the authority of the Bible over the State." Linder concludes that "Viret deserves a far more prominent place in the story of the
Reformation than he has been accorded thus far, especially by historians in the English-speaking world."
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O. Favre, 'Pierre Viret (1511-1571) et la
Discipline Ecclésiastique', (author of M.A. Dissertation 'La discipline ecclésiastique dans la théologie du Réformateur Pierre Viret', Faculty of Reformed Theology, Aix-en-Provence 1993) (Archived at
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suggests that "if his good friend, John Calvin, was the consummate dogmatician and the prince of exegetes, Pierre Viret must be considered as the finest ethicist and the most acute apologist of the sixteenth century."
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Pierre Viret, un
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Lausanne au temps de la RĂ©formation: avec une introduction sur Pierre Viret et Orbe, sa ville natale, et un appendice sur les deux premiers imprimeurs protestants de
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Pierre Viret: A Forgotten Giant of the
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