Suárez’s Influence on Protestant Scholasticism: The Cases of Hollaz and Turretín

This chapter concentrates on two representatives of high Protestant scholasticism, the Lutheran David Hollaz and the Reformed Francis Turretin. Hollaz's Examen theologicum acroamaticum ( ETA ) and Turretin's Institutio theologicae elenctiae ( ITE ) are masterpieces of Protestant scholastic theology. When both wrote their dogmatics, the Protestant scholastics had time to formulate precisely the doctrinal commitments of their respective communions, work out their logical entailments, and absorb what they could of Francisco Suarez; therefore, both the ETA and the ITE contain precise, sophisticated, and thorough summations of the results of the labours of over a century of Protestant scholasticism. Since the ETA and the ITE are theological in scope, the chapter focuses on the theological works of Suarez as well; it must be remembered, however, that Suarez, Hollaz, and Turretin embedded their theology in a well-determined metaphysics, making ample use of philosophical terminology and argumentation. Keywords: Francis Turretin; Francisco Suarez; Lutheran David Hollaz; metaphysics; Protestant scholasticism