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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461839303321

Autore

Cottret Bernard

Titolo

Calvin, A Biography [[electronic resource] ] : A Biography

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2003

ISBN

1-283-20037-6

9786613200372

0-567-53035-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Disciplina

284.2092

Soggetti

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564

Geneva (Switzerland) -- Biography

Geneva (Switzerland) -- Church history -- 16th century

Reformation -- Switzerland -- Geneva -- Biography

Reformed Church -- Switzerland -- Geneva -- Clergy -- Biography

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Christianity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Introduction: John Calvin, an Unfinishd Portrait; 1. The Heavens at a Birth: July 10, 1509; 2. Dwarfs Perched on the Shoulders of Giants; 3. To Be Twenty-One in 1530; 4. The Most Dreadful Popish Mass: 1533-34; 5. The Lovers of Jesus Christ: 1535-36; 6. From Basel to Geneva: 1536-38; 7. Geneva or Strasbourg? 1538-41; 8. Geneva, a City of God? The Middle Years of the Century; 9. The Somber Years: 1547-55; 10. The Trail of the Heretics: Bolsec, Servetus, Castellio; 11. To Thee the Glory; 12. Calvin the Polemicist; 13. Calvin the Preacher; 14. The Institutes of the Christian Religion

15. Calvin, French WriterSelect Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A major new authoritative and comprehensive biography, shedding new light on the life and personality of the great Reformer - and the milieu in which he lived and worked. CottretGÇÖs Calvin is not the



GÇÿstaticGÇÖ theologian of earlier biographies, but a man of enormous vigour, constantly on the move in his thinking as well as in his life. Professor Cottret introduces the reader to the world into which Calvin was born, and follows him from childhood to humanistic and literary pursuits in Basel, to ministry in Geneva, to the halcyon Strasbourg years and finally back to Geneva. The vital issues