Beza

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Theodore Beza began at the Geneva Academy as a Greek professor, but when John Calvin died, he assumed the responsibility of leading the school. On this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History, Dr. Stephen Nichols tells the story of how God directed Beza's life at every unexpected turn.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History. Last week, we talked about
0:04.4	Theodore Beza and his role in Calvin's Geneva. It dawned on me that all of this time in five minutes in church history
0:11.7	We have not devoted an episode to Theodore Beza. Well, it is time to write that wrong. Beza was born in Burgundy
0:21.2	Early on he had a teacher who also taught John Calvin from 1534 to 1539
0:28.6	Beza studied law and then he moved to Paris. He practiced law, but he loved poetry, and he actually wrote a number of poems and in
0:38.3	1548 he published what would be his first book. It was a book of poems. That same year he had a spiritual
0:46.3	religious crisis out of that he denounces Catholicism and aligns with the Reformation and professes his faith.
0:53.4	That same year he makes a trip to Geneva, but he didn't stay at Geneva. He ended up moving on to
1:00.4	Lausanne and there he taught from 1550 to 1558
1:06.2	In 1558 Calvin invited him to come to Geneva to this new academy originally he invited him
1:14.3	simply to be a professor to teach Greek, but once Beza got there in
1:19.9	1559 Calvin had him installed as the rector of the academy. It was only five years later that Calvin died in
1:29.3	1564 and the mantle of the leadership not only of the academy at Geneva, but of the church there in Geneva and in many ways of
1:38.3	the Reformation in the Swiss city states that mantle of leadership fell upon
1:44.2	Beza. In that same year 1564, Beza published his
1:49.6	biography of Calvin, the life of Calvin. Well, here's a good moment to start tabulating all of Beza's writings.
1:57.7	When it comes to the biblical languages and the text of the Bible, he wrote a Greek grammar.
2:03.2	He published a Greek New Testament that by all accounts was far better than
2:08.5	Erasmus' and became the key standard Greek text.
2:12.7	He published his annotations on the New Testament and he was also
2:17.3	one of the contributors and one of the editors of the Geneva Bible when it comes to theological texts.
2:23.6	Here are some of his titles, Confessions of the Christian Faith, a book on predestination.
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