John Calvin A Sixteenth-Century Portrait

Name: John Calvin A Sixteenth-Century Portrait
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ISBN: 9780195059519

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Authors: William J. Bouwsma

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Historians have credited--or blamed--Calvinism for many developments in the modern world, including capitalism, modern science, secularization, democracy, individualism, and unitarianism. These same historians, however, have largely ignored John Calvin the man. When people consider him at all, they tend to view him as little more than the joyless tyrant of Geneva who created an abstract theology as forbidding as himself. This volume, written by the eminent historian William J. Bouwsma, who has devoted his career to exploring the larger patterns of early modern European history, seeks to redress these common misconceptions of Calvin by placing him back in the proper historical context of his…

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List price: $37.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/17/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 9.17" wide x 6.18" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

William J. Bouwsma was Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.



Acknowledgments


Introduction the Quest for the Historical Calvin



The Man and the Times



A Sixteenth-Century Life



Calvin's Anxiety



A World out of Joint



The Labyrinth



Cosmic Inheritances



Restoring Order



Rational Religion



The Opening



Humanism



The Abyss



Being



Knowing



Power



Drama



A Program for the Times



Society



Polity



Church



Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index