Author: Jean Calvin
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Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Author: Jean Calvin
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Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Jean Calvin
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809105410
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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This volume translates selected works of John Calvin (1509-1564), the great reformer of Geneva, with special emphasis on his piety.

Author: John C. Olin
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823219925
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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In 1539, Cardinal Jacopo Sadoleto, Bishop of Carpentras, addressed a letter to the magistrates and citizens of Geneva, asking them to return to the Roman Catholic faith. John Calvin replied to Sadoleto, defending the adoption of the Protestant reforms. Sadoleto’s letter and Calvin’s reply constitute one of the most interesting exchanges of Roman Catholic/Protestant views during the Reformationand an excellent introduction to the great religious controversy of the sixteenth century. These statements are not in vacuo of a Roman Catholic and Protestant position. They were drafted in the midst of the religious conflict that was then dividing Europe. And they reflect too the temperaments and personal histories of the men who wrote them. Sadoleto’s letter has an irenic approach, an emphasis on the unity and peace of the Church, highly characteristic of the Christian Humanism he represented. Calvin’s reply is in part a personal defense, an apologia pro vita sua, that records his own religious experience. And its taut, comprehensive argument is characteristic of the disciplined and logical mind of the author of The Institutes of the Christian Religion.

Author: Wulfert Greef
Publisher: Apollos
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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An introduction to the complete Calvin corpus is available in English for the first time, placing information on the Geneva Reformer's exegetical and controversial work within easy reach. This survey also includes a biography focusing on the people and events that swirled through his life. Throughout the guide de Greef relates Calvin's publications to their historical context. Interpretive biblical works, essays and confessional treatises, and theological debates are covered, along with Calvin's correspondence and miscellaneous writings. One chapter follows the development of the Institutes of the Christian Religion through its successive revisions. Extensive indexes and notes on major Calvin studies are included. The guide avoids quoting the works themselves but shows where to turn for Calvin's thoughts on a subject. Bibliographical data have been reworked from the Dutch edition to point out English translations.

Author: James K. A. Smith
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1587432943
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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At a time when definitions of Calvinism are hotly contested, this book provides a vision of the Reformed faith that is generous, winsome, and imaginative.

Author: Jean Calvin
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: Jean Calvin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780851519876
Category : Reformation
Languages : en
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Author: John Calvin
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556352468
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1902

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This English edition of the epistolary writings of Calvin, complete in four volumes, contains six hundred sixty-eight letters, last discourses, and an appendix of eighteen additional letters. The letters here are selected from the Paris edition, which embraces the originals of all that are extant, and represent our most complete English edition of Calvin's letters. The industry of Calvin and the reach of his power, as disclosed in these products of his pen, are well sketched in a few lines of the preface. ÒInvested, in virtue of his surpassing genius, with an almost universal apostolate, he wielded an influence as varied and as plastic as his activity. He exhorts with the same authority the humble ministers of the Gospel and the powerful monarchs of England, Sweden, and Poland. He holds communion with Luther and Melanchthon, animates Knox, encourages Coligny, Conde, Jeanne d'Albret, and the Duchess of Ferrara; while in his familiar letters to Farel, Viret, and Theodore Beza, he pours out the overflowings of a heart filled with the deepest and most acute sensibility.

Author: Herman J. Selderhuis
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830829210
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Professor and renowned Reformation historian Herman Selderhuis has written this book to bring Calvin near to the reader, showing him as a man who had an impressive impact on the development of the Western world, but who was first of all a believer who struggled with God and with the way God governed both the world and his own life.