“today the consensus of sixteenth-century scholars is that the growth and organization of the Reformed faction in France into congregations was caused by pastors and books sent illegally into France from Geneva in the 1550s and early 1560s.”
— Martin I. Klauber, The Theology of the French Reformed Churches: From Henry IV to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes🔗
“It is unfortunate that the French delegation was prevented from attending the Synod of Dort. One is left to wonder: If Du Moulin had been allowed to participate in person, would he have been a significant moderating influence on the synod and the canons?”
— Martin I. Klauber, The Theology of the French Reformed Churches: From Henry IV to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes🔗
“Psalms were at the heart of monastic liturgy and would remain so for Protestants, not least in France.”
— Geoffrey Treasure, The Huguenots: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West🔗
“Recent estimates put the number of Calvinists in France in 1560 at around two million, forming some 10 percent of the total French population.”
— Martin I. Klauber, The Theology of the French Reformed Churches: From Henry IV to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes🔗
“In their system the autonomy of the local churches came first, but the need for all the churches to express their unity and to assist each other in doctrine, worship, ethics, and judicial appeals warranted self-imposed restrictions that prevented every church from “doing what was right in its own eyes.”
— Martin I. Klauber, The Theology of the French Reformed Churches: From Henry IV to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes🔗