Title:
Calvin and his influence, 1509-2009 / [edited by] Irena Backus and Philip Benedict.
Author:
Backus, Irena Dorota, 1950-
Benedict, Philip.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Call Number:
BX9418 .C3615 2011
Abstract:
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.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1214/2010054110-t.htmlContributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1214/2010054110-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1214/2010054110-d.html
ISBN:
9780199751846
9780199751853
Physical Description:
xiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
"The essays collected in this volume were originally prepared as plenary addresses to the international conference 'Calvin and his influence, 1509-2009.' held in Geneva from May 24 to 27, 2009"--Page vii.
Contents:
Calvin : fifth Latin doctor of the church? / The ideal of Aristocratia Politiae Vicina in the Calvinist political tradition / Calvin the workaholic / Calvin's self-awareness as author / Calvin's church in Geneva : constructed or gathered? local or foreign? French or Swiss? / Calvin, the Swiss Reformed Churches, and the European Reformation / Calvin, 1509-2009 / Calvinism as an actor in the early modern state system around 1690 : struggle for alliances, patterns of eschatological interpretation, symbolic representation / Reception and response : referencing and understanding Calvin in seventeenth-century Calvinism / The Dutch enlightenment and the distant Calvin / Lost, then found : Calvin in French Protestantism, 1830-1940 / Calvin in the plural : the diversity of modern interpretations of Calvinism, especially in Germany and the English-speaking world / Calvin, modern Calvinism, and civil society : the appropriation of a heritage, with particular reference to the low countries / Calvin and British evangelicalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Calvin(ism) and apartheid in South Africa in the twentieth century : the making and unmaking of a racial ideology
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