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John Calvin was a leader of the European Reformation of the sixteenth century and the influence of his thought remains crucial in our world. This collection explores the origins of Calvin's thought and the theological, historical, and cultural circumstances in which they have evolved from Genev...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Oxford handbooks
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| Summary: |
John Calvin was a leader of the European Reformation of the sixteenth century and the influence of his thought remains crucial in our world. This collection explores the origins of Calvin's thought and the theological, historical, and cultural circumstances in which they have evolved from Geneva to our times. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 692 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198728818 0198728816 |
| Index Number: | BX9418 |
| CLC: | B979.956.5-62 |
| Call Number: | B979.956.5-62/O984 |
| Contents: |
Calvin's Old Testament Theology and Beyond: The Approaches of A.A. van Ruler and K.H. Miskotte / Calvin, Shakespeare, and Suspense / Theology and Visual Culture in Early Modern Calvinism / Calvinist Debates on History: Historia Sacra, Historia Humana / Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Scotland / Protestantism as Liberalism: John Milton and the Struggle against Implicit Faith / The Effects of Confessional Strife on Religious Authority in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century / The First Calvinist Encounters with New World Religions / John Calvin's Vision of Reform, Historical Thinking, and the Modern World / "If Thou Reckon Right": Angels from John Calvin to Jonathan Edwards via John Milton / Eighteenth-Century Evangelical Calvinists / Classical Calvinism and the Problem of Development: William Cunningham's Critique of John Henry Newman / Writing the Nineteenth-Century Scottish Calvinist Self: Spiritual Autobiography and Reformed Identity / Unity and Engagement in the Modern World: Abraham Kuyper's Calvinist Renewal / Karl Barth's Calvin: A Weimar Prophet / The New Calvinism / No Other Gods: Calvinism and Secular Society / Calvin's Geneva: An Imperfect 'School of Christ' / Reforming Calvinism / Calvinism among Seventeenth-Century English Puritans / Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Reformed Tradition in the Modern Era / Old Princeton and European Scholarship / Seventeenth-Century Calvinism and Early Enlightenment Thought / Religion and the Republic: An Eighteenth-Century Black Calvinist |