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Calvin and his influence, 1509-2009 [electronic resource] / Irena Backus and Philip Benedict

Author:
Backus, Irena, 1950-
Published:
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators:
Benedict, Philip
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Calvin: Fifth Latin Doctor of the Church? / Diarmaid Macculloch -- 2.The Ideal of Aristocratia Politiae Vicina in the Calvinist Political Tradition / Harro M. Hopel -- 3.Calvin the Workaholic / Max Engammare -- 4.Calvin's Self-Awareness as Author / Olivier Millet -- 5.Calvin's Church in Geneva: Constructed or Gathered? Local or Foreign? French or Swiss? / William Naphy -- 6.Calvin, the Swiss Reformed Churches, and the European Reformation / Emidio Campi -- 7.Calvin, 1509-2009 / Herman Selderhuis -- 8.Calvinism as an Actor in the Early Modern State System around 1600: Struggle for Alliances, Patterns of Eschatological Interpretation, Symbolic Representation / Heinz Schilling -- 9.Reception and Response: Referencing and Understanding Calvin in Seventeenth-Century Calvinism / Richard A. Muller -- 10.The Dutch Enlightenment and the Distant Calvin / Ernestine Van Der Wall -- 11.Lost, Then Found: Calvin in French Protestantism, 1830-1940 / Andre Encreve -- 12.Calvin in the Plural: The Diversity of Modern Interpretations of Calvinism, Especially in Germany and the English-Speaking World / Friedrich Wilhelm Graf -- 13.Calvin, Modern Calvinism, and Civil Society: The Appropriation of a Heritage, with Particular Reference to the Low Countries / Cornelis Van Der Kooi -- 14.Calvin and British Evangelicalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / David Bebbington -- 15.Calvin(ism) and Apartheid in South Africa in the Twentieth Century: The Making and Unmaking of a Racial Ideology / John W. De Gruchy.
Summary:
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.
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ISBN:
9780199914562 (ebook)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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