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Amandus Polanus
Amandus Polanus (1561–1610) was a Reformed theologian and professor at the University of Basel whose systematic theological works, particularly The Substance of Christian Religion, significantly shaped Protestant scholasticism in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. His methodical approach to doctrinal exposition and emphasis on the harmony between reason and revelation made him an influential figure in the development of Reformed orthodoxy during a period of intense theological consolidation following the Reformation. Polanus's writings were widely disseminated throughout Protestant Europe and contributed substantially to the intellectual foundations of Reformed theology in the early modern period.
From The Substance of Christian Religion
The first part, namely concerning faith, doth teach vs, what we must beleeue to saluation. And that cōcerneth either God, or the Church. Of the knowledge of God, or of faith concerning God, are two parts, the first concerning the essence of God, the second concerning his workes. The essence of God, is the nature of God, whereby God is indeede, and doth subsist.
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