Walter Travers

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Walter Travers ( * 1548, † 1643) was an English Puritan and author.

Travers was educated at Cambridge. On a visit to Geneva, he was influenced by the Calvinists, and he refused in 1571 to sign the " Thirty-nine Articles ." Travers then left England and became pastor of a church in Antwerp. Later he returned to England and became embroiled in a controversy with Richard Hooker, who defended the Church of England. Travers in 1595 rector of the newly founded Trinity College. Travers was the confessor of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, and tutor to his son Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury at Trinity College. His reputation as a Puritan writer was based on a 1574 published work in which he advocated a Presbyterian form of church organization.

" Thirty-nine Articles "

Thirty-nine Articles, the 1563 adopted teaching formulation of the Church of England, based on the written by Thomas Cranmer Forty-two Articles of 1553rd The Thirty-nine Articles formulate Reformation theologically > moderate ' basis (without condemnations ) the basic theological positions ( Articles of Faith ) of the Anglican Church thematically divided into four sections: " the essence of faith '( Article 1-5) > the Basics of the Faith < ( articles 6-8 ) > the life of faith ' ( Article 9-18 ) > the Community nature of faith < (Article 19-39 ).

• English
• Puritan
• Author
• Born in the 16th century
• Died in 1643
• Man