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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449807603321

Autore

Barton Florence Whitfield

Titolo

Calvin and the duchess / / F. Whitfield Barton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Louisville, Ky. : , : Westminster/J. Knox Press, , 1989

ISBN

1-134-98991-1

1-280-56724-4

9786610567249

0-203-12969-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (79 p.)

Collana

Lancaster pamphlets

Disciplina

284/.2/092

B

Soggetti

Reformation

Electronic books.

France Church history 16th century

Italy Church history 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-68).

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: the importance of Calvin and Calvinism; 1. Religion andf the church in early sixteenth-century France; 2. Christian humanism; 3. John Calvin: the early years; 4. The Institutes of Christian Religion; 5. Geneva; 6. Strassburg; 7. Return to Geneva; 8. The years of opposition; 9. The road to victory; 10. Calvin's leadership: foreign policy; 11. The Genevan Academy; 12. Calvin: scholar, writer, organizer; 13. Finale; 14. The expansion of Calvinism; Suggested further reading

Sommario/riassunto

In this lucid and readable study, Michael Mullet explains the historical importance of a man and a movement whose influence are still felt in the modern world. The  pamphlet locates John Calvin in the context of early 16th-century France and then charts his emergence as an influential theologian and civic religious leader in the 'second generation' of reformers following Luther. After exploring the  main lines of Calvin's theology, set out in the Institutes, the central section deals with the difficult process by which his authority was imposed on,



or accepted by, Geneva. Finally, the