Basel's Samuel Werenfels (1657-1740) & Theology of Inspired Perseverance

<p>What created our future—sovereign grace or free choice? What happened to the sixteenth-century reformation and the counter-debate two centuries later? Did it fade into the Aufklärung / le Siècle des Lumières promoting natural theology over revealed theology?</p><p>Samuel Werenfels (1657–1740) with a category-5 tailwind of theology heritage from Grynäus and Buxtorf dynasties attacked disputations in academic Latin. Yet with Basel’s French refugees he radiated fervent revival preaching on Holy Spirit–inspired perseverance.</p><p>Innovative Basel also launched contrasting enlightenment scholars in mathematics messiah Leonhard Euler and Shakespeare translator Simon Grynäus V minister of Basel’s St. Peter.</p>