Introduction : John Calvin in context / R. Ward Holder -- Part 1: France and its influence. John Calvin's life / G. Sujin Pak -- French Christianity in the early 1500s / Raymond A. Mentzer -- The University of Paris during Calvin's life / Greta Grace Kroeker -- French humanism / Olivier Millet -- French religious politics / Jonathan A. Reid -- The French wars of religion / Diane C. Margolf -- Part II: Switzerland, Southern Germany, and Geneva. France The Swiss Confederation in the age of John Calvin / Bruce Gordon -- Strasbourg in the sixteenth century / Steven W. Tyra -- Geneva and its protectors / Charles H. Parker -- Daily life in Geneva / Jill Fehleison -- Reforming the city-state : government in Geneva / William G. Naphy -- Consistories and discipline / Jeffrey R. Watt -- Reformed education and the Genevan academy / Karin Maag -- Worship, pastorate, and diaconate in early modern Europe / Elsie Anne McKee -- Part III: Empire and society. The politics of the emperors / Ute Lotz-Heumann -- Judaism in Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance / David H. Price -- Refugees / Jesse Spohnholz -- Calvin and women / Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt -- Part IV: The religious question. Western ideals of religious reform / Brad S. Gregory -- The Luther affair / David M. Whitford -- Religious colloquies / Ronald K. Rittgers -- The Council of Trent and the Augsburg Interim / Kathleen M. Comerford -- Biblical scholarship / Jon Balserak -- The printed word / Andrew Pettegree -- Polemic's purpose / Amanda Eurich -- The style of theology : editions of the Institutes / Randall C. Zachman -- Baptism / Karen E. Spierling -- The Eucharist / Amy Nelson Burnett -- Predestination in early modern thought / Charles Raith II -- The challenge of heresy : Servetus, Stancaro, and Castellio / Arnold Huijgen -- Early modern Christianity and idolatry / Carlos M.N. Eire -- Trinitarian controversies / Rebecca Giselbrecht -- Nicodemism and libertinism / Kenneth J. Woo -- Part V: Calvin's influence. Calvin and Luther / Christopher Boyd Brown -- Calvin and Melanchthon / Timothy J. Orr -- Calvin and the Swiss and south German evangelicals / Peter Opitz -- Calvin's friends : Farel, Viret, and Beza / Michael W. Bruening -- Calvin's critics : Bolsec and Castellio / Kirk Essary -- Calvin's Lutheran critics / Esther Chung-Kim -- Calvin's Catholic critics / Ralph Keen -- Calvin and the Anabaptists / Mirjam van Veen -- International Calvinism / Mack P. Holt -- Calvin legends : hagiography and demonology / Jennifer Powell McNutt -- Calvin and Calvinism in early modern England, Scotland, and Ireland / Crawford Gribben -- Calvinism in the early modern Netherlands and the Dutch Atlantic world / Christine Kooi -- Calvin in Asia / Yudha Thianto -- Calvin's theological legacy from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries / Keith D. Stanglin -- The reception of John Calvin in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Bruce Gordon -- Conclusion : Calvin and Calvinism : a variety of portraits / R. Ward Holder.
Summary:
John Calvin in Context offers a comprehensive overview of Calvin's world. Including essays from social, cultural, feminist, and intellectual historians, each specially commissioned for this volume, the book considers the various early modern contexts in which Calvin worked and wrote. It captures his concerns for Northern humanism, his deep involvement in the politics of Geneva, his relationships with contemporaries, and the polemic necessities of responding to developments in Rome and other Protestant sects, notably Lutheran and Anabaptist. The volume also explores Calvin's tasks as a pastor and doctor of the church, who was constantly explicating the text of scripture and applying it to the context of sixteenth-century Geneva, as well as the reception of his role in the Reformation and beyond. Demonstrating the complexity of the world in which Calvin lived, John Calvin in Context serves as an essential research tool for scholars and students of early modern Europe.
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