Calvin : a biography

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Calvin : a biography

Bernard Cottret; translated by M. Wallace McDonald

W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2000 , T & T Clark, c2000

  • (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 356-364) and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780567089618

Description

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. Cottret's Calvin is not the Gstatic 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 of the day are encountered as it were through Calvins eyes, as the author leads the reader through the dramatic upheavals of sixteenth-century Europe. A classic biography which will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars for years to come. Praise for Calvin:

Table of Contents

  • Part I: Youth of a Reformer
  • 1. The Heavens at a Birth: July 10, 1509
  • 2. Dwarves 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
  • Part II: Organisation and Resistance
  • 6. From Basel to Geneva: 1536-38
  • 7. Geneva to Strasbourg? 1538-41
  • 8. Geneva, a City of God? The Middle Years of the Century
  • 9. The Sombre Years: 1547-55
  • 10. The Trail of the Heretics: Bolsec, Servetus, Castellio
  • 11. To Thee the Glory
  • Part III: Beliefs
  • 12. Calvin the Polemicist
  • 13. Calvin the Preacher
  • 14. The Institutes of the Christian Religion
  • 15. Calvin, French Writer
  • Conclusion: Saint Luther, Saint Calvin, Saint Jansenius
  • Appendixes
  • 1. The Youth of Calvin
  • 2. The University System in France
  • 3. The Small council
  • 4. Chronology of the Establishment of Calvinism in France
  • 5. Chronology of Royal Repression
  • 6. Decrees of the Sorbonne, 1543
  • 7. List of Sermons
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
Volume

(hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 9780802842893

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This sterling biography of Calvin sheds new light on the great Reformer's personality by concentrating on the milieu in which he did his life's work. Cottret examines Calvin's life chronologically and explores the thematic aspects of his persona--Calvin the polemicist, preacher and writer--and looks in greater depth at his foremost work, the "Institutes of the Christian Religion".

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