Quirinus Breen
Quirinus Breen (3 March 1896 – 25 March 1975) was an American historian and scholar of religion.
Breen was born in Orange City, Iowa.[1] He studied at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary and was ordained as a minister in the Christian Reformed Church in 1920.[2] He left the denomination after Ralph Janssen was deposed as a minister in 1922, being unhappy with the way his case had been handled.[3] Breen then obtained a PhD in church history from the University of Chicago and taught at Hillsdale College and Albany College. In 1938 Breen began teaching at the University of Oregon, where he taught until his retirement in 1964, after which he taught at Grand Valley State College.
Breen specialized in the protestant reformers and early renaissance humanists.[1] In 1968, a collection of his essays was published in his honor under the title Christianity and Humanism: Studies in the History of Ideas.[4]
Breen served as President of the American Society of Church History in 1956.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Quirinus Breen faculty papers". University of Oregon. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
- ^ Mouw, Richard J. (2020). All That God Cares About: Common Grace and Divine Delight. Brazos Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-4934-2373-6. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
- ^ Zwaanstra, Henry (1985). "Louis Berkhof". Reformed Theology in America: A History of Its Modern Development. Eerdmans. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-8028-0096-1. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
- ^ Holmes, Urban T. (1968). "An Answer for Tertullian: The Christian as Humanist". The Living Church. p. 15. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
- ^ "Past Presidents of the American Society of Church History". American Society of Church History. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
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- 1896 births
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- 20th-century American historians
- People from Orange City, Iowa
- Calvin University alumni
- Calvin Theological Seminary alumni
- University of Chicago alumni
- Hillsdale College faculty
- Lewis & Clark College faculty
- University of Oregon faculty
- Grand Valley State University faculty
- Historians of Christianity
- Historians of the Renaissance
- Reformation historians
- Christian Reformed Church ministers