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Pierre Jurieu ( 1637 - January 11, 1713) was a French Protestant leader.He was born at Mer , in Orléanais , where his father was a Protestant pastor. He studied at Saumur and Sedan under his grandfather, Pierre Dumoulin , and under Leblanc de Beaulieu . After completing his studies in the Netherlands and England, Jurieu was ordained as an Anglican priest; returning to France he was ordained again and succeeded his father as pastor of the church at Mer. Soon after this he published his first work, Examen de livre de la reunion du Christianisme (1671). In 1674 his Traité de la dévotion led to his appointment as professor of theology and Hebrew at Sedan, where he soon became pastor.
A year later he published his Apologie pour la morale des Reformés. His reputation was damaged by his argumentative nature, which sometimes descended into fanaticism, despite his sincerity. He was called by his adversaries "the Goliath of the Protestants." On the suppression of the academy of Sedan in 1681, Jurieu received an invitation to a church at Rouen, but, afraid to remain in France on account of his forthcoming work, La Politique du clergé de France, he went to Holland and was pastor of the Walloon church of RotterdamRotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands (after Amsterdam), located in the province of South Holland. The city is situated on the banks of the Nieuwe Maas River. The name "Rotterdam" is derived from a dam in a small river, the Rotte, which till his death. He was also professor at the "école illustre".
Jurieu did much to help those who suffered by the revocation of the Edict of NantesThe Edict of Nantes was issued on April 13, 1598 by Henry IV of France to grant French Protestants (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a Catholic nation. The main concern was civil unity, and the Edict separated civil from religious unity, tre (1685). He turned for consolation to the ApocalypseThis article is about apocalypse, the biblical event. There is another article about Apocalypse, the comic book supervillain. An apocalypse in the terminology of early Jewish and Christian literature, is a revelation of hidden things given by God to a cho, and succeeded in persuading himself (Accomplissement des propheties, 1686) that the overthrow of AntichristIn Christian eschatology, the Antichrist is a person or other entity that is the embodiment of evil, and utterly opposed to truth. In the New Testament, the word "antichrist" (Greek antichristos is used only in 1 John and 2 John, where it generally descri (i.e. the Pope) would take place in 1689. HM BairdHenry Martyn Baird ( 1832- 1906), American historian and educationalist, a son of Robert Baird ( 1798- 1863), a Presbyterian preacher and author who worked both in the United States and in Europe for the cause of temperance, was born in Philadelphia, Penn says that "this persuasion, however fanciful the grounds on which it was based, exercised no small influence in forwarding the success of the designs of William of OrangeWilliam III and II (William Henry) ( 14 November 1650 8 March 1702) was Prince of Orange from his birth, King of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scotland from 11 April 1689, in each case until his death. He won the English, Scottish in the invasion of England." Jurieu defended the doctrines of Protestantism with great ability against the attacks of Antoine ArnauldAntoine Arnauld ( 1612 August 8, 1694 le grand as contemporaries called him--was a French Roman Catholic theologian and writer. The twentieth and youngest child of the original Antoine Arnauld, he was originally intended for the bar, but decided instead t, Pierre NicolePierre Nicole ( 1625 November 16, 1695), one of the most distinguished of the French Jansenists, was the son of a provincial barrister, and was born at Chartres. Sent to Paris in 1642 to study theology, he soon entered into relations with the Jansenist co and Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, but was equally ready to enter into dispute with his fellow Protestant divines (with Louis Du Moulin and Claude Payon , for instance) when their opinions differed from his own even on minor matters. The bitterness and persistency of his attacks on his colleague Pierre Bayle led to the latter being deprived of his chair in 1693.
One of Jurieu's chief works is Lettres pastorales adressées aux fidéles de France (3 vols., Rotterdam, 1686-1687; Eng. trans., 1689), which, notwithstanding the vigilance of the police, found its way into France and produced a deep impression on the Protestant population. His last important work was the Histoire critique des dogmes et des cultes (1704). He wrote a great number of controversial works.
See the article in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopädie; also HM Baird, The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1895).
