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Article: Peter Martyr Vermigli and Predestination: The Augustinian Inheritance of an Italian Reformer.
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- March 1, 2000
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Peter Martyr Vermigli and Predestination: The Augustinian Inheritance of an Italian Reformer. By Frank A. James III. Oxford Theological Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. xiv + 290 pp. $75.00.
The subject of this monograph is a strand in the thought of Peter Martyr Vermigli, the Italian Augustinian canon converted to Protestantism who is increasingly recognized to be one of the most important codifiers of sixteenth-century Reformed theology, equivalent in influence and rigor to Calvin, Bullinger, and Musculus as one of the major formulators of that variety of theology. The strand upon which James concentrates is the doctrine of gemina predestinatio or double ...