Continuous Commentary on Johannes Marckius' Didactico-Elenctic Compendium of Christian Theology - Volume 1
by Bernardinus De Moor
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9781936473076
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Bernardinus de Moor was born on January 29, 1709. He studied at the great, Dutch University of Leiden, which had been a center of Reformed scholarship from the time of its founding in 1575. Its faculty had included some ...Bernardinus de Moor was born on January 29, 1709. He studied at the great, Dutch University of Leiden, which had been a center of Reformed scholarship from the time of its founding in 1575. Its faculty had included some prominent Reformed theologians, such as Franciscus Junius (1592-1602), Franciscus Gomarus (1594-1611), Antonius Walaeus (1619-1639), Johannes Hoornbeeck (1653-1666), and Herman Witsius (1698-1708), among others. De Moor attended at Leiden from 1726-1730, and had the opportunity to study under Johannes Wesselius (1712-1745), remembered for his Dissertationes academicae, and Johannes a Marck (1689-1731). De Moor was especially attached to a Marck, and a Marck, shortly before his death, asked De Moor to continue his work, which he would indeed do. It seems that in his teaching method, De Moor honored the dying wish of his teacher and friend, Johannes a Marck. The substance of De Moor's lectures survives in his massive Continuous Commentary on Johannes Marckius' Didactico-Elenctic Compendium of Christian Theology (1761-1778; in seven volumes). As its title indicates, De Moor's lectures were something of a running commentary upon the Compendium of a Marck, while also drawing upon and digesting the fruits of two centuries of Reformed theological thought. De Moor's Commentary is a masterpiec
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