Calvin and His Influence, 1509-2009
1st Edition
Published on 31. August 2011
353 pages
978-0-19-987698-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume collects papers initially written as the plenary addresses for the largest international scholarly conference held in connection with the 500th anniversary of Calvin's birth, organized in Geneva by the Institute of Reformation History. The organizers chose as theme for the conference ''Calvin and His Influence 1509-2009,'' hoping to stimulate reflection about what Calvin's ideas and example have meant across the five centuries since his lifetime, as well as about how much validity the classic interpretations that have linked his legacy to fundamental features of modernity such as democracy, capitalism, or science still retain.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Calvin: Fifth Latin Doctor of the Church?
- 2. The Ideal of Aristocratia Politiae Vicina in the Calvinist Political Tradition
- 3. Calvin the Workaholic
- 4. Calvin's Self-Awareness as Author
- 5. Calvin's Church in Geneva: Constructed or Gathered? Local or Foreign? French or Swiss?
- 6. Calvin, the Swiss Reformed Churches, and the European Reformation
- 7. Calvin, 1509-2009
- 8. Calvinism as an Actor in the Early Modern State System around 1600: Struggle for Alliances, Patterns of Eschatological Interpretation, Symbolic Representation
- 9. Reception and Response: Referencing and Understanding Calvin in Seventeenth-Century Calvinism
- 10. The Dutch Enlightenment and the Distant Calvin
- 11. Lost, Then Found: Calvin in French Protestantism, 1830-1940
- 12. Calvin in the Plural: The Diversity of Modern Interpretations of Calvinism, Especially in Germany and the English-Speaking World
- 13. Calvin, Modern Calvinism, and Civil Society: The Appropriation of a Heritage, with Particular Reference to the Low Countries
- 14. Calvin and British Evangelicalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 15. Calvin(ism) and Apartheid in South Africa in the Twentieth Century: The Making and Unmaking of a Racial Ideology
- Index
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- I
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- K
- L
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- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
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