English summary: The contributions to this volume deal with the current interdisciplinary research on Calvin's work and impact in a European perspective. John Calvin's work influenced Europe not only theologically but also socially, politically, and culturally. Contributors are Karl Kardinal Lehmann, Mainz; Irene Dingel, Mainz; Amy Nelson Burnett, Lincoln; Emidio Campi, Zurich; Raymond Mentzer, Iowa; Mirjam van Veen, Amsterdam; Matthias Schnettger, Mainz; Ulrich Wien, Landau; Kestutis Daugirdas, Mainz; Herman J. Selderhuis, Apeldoorn; Heiner Luck, Halle; Eike Wolgast, Heidelberg; Matthieu Arnold, Strasbourg; Judith Becker, Mainz; Barbara Pitkin, Stanford; Max Engammare, Genf; Wolf-Friedrich Schaufele, Marburg; Christoph Strohm, Heidelberg; Elsie McKee, Princeton; Peter Opitz, Zurich; Athina Lexutt, Giessen; Volker Leppin, Jena; Olivier Millet, Paris; Mark Greengrass, Sheffield; Stefan Ehrenpreis, Munchen; Matthias Muller, Mainz and Ruth Slenczka, Berlin. German description: Die von Irene Dingel und Herman Selderhuis versammelten Beitrage widmen sich der europaischen Ausstrahlung des Genfer Reformators Johannes Calvin und den weitgreifenden Wirkungen des Calvinismus. Dabei kommt der Calvinismus als ein landerubergreifendes konfessionelles System in den Blick, dessen Gestaltungskrafte sich sowohl in theologischer als auch in gesellschaftlicher, politischer und kultureller Hinsicht ausserten, mit bestehenden Systemen in Interaktion traten und so wesentlich zur Auspragung des modernen Europa beitrugen. In drei thematischen Schwerpunkten kommen zunachst die Person Calvins und ihre Einflusse in West- und Osteuropa zur Sprache, sodann die durch Vertreibung, Exil und Neuaufbau gepragte Wirklichkeit des fruhneuzeitlichen Calvinismus und schliesslich die in einer spezifischen Spiritualitat und deren Medien Gestalt gewinnende geistige Kraft des Calvinismus. Der Band greift die verschiedenen aktuellen Forschungsdiskurse auf, fuhrt sie unter der Perspektive der europaischen Wirkmachtigkeit des Calvinismus zusammen und eroffnet durch seine Interdisziplinaritat und Internationalitat zugleich neue Blickwinkel, um auf diese Weise impulsgebend auf die Forschung zu wirken.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-29 - Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
The legal and political scenario of Calvin’s day involved upheavals deriving from the force of religion upon law. Whole cities, provinces, and states came under Reformation influence, ranging from quiet individual conversions to Protestantism to the hysteria of community iconoclasm. The transformation of these societies, however, was not moving away
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-05-22 - Publisher: A&C Black
A major new authoritative and comprehensive biography, shedding new light on the life and personality of the great Reformer - and the milieu in which he lived and worked. Cottret's Calvin is not the 'static' theologian of earlier biographies, but a man of enormous vigour, constantly on the move in
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-11 - Publisher: BRILL
Netherlandish Books offers a unique overview of what was printed during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Low Countries. This bibliography lists descriptions of over 32,000 editions together with an introduction and indexes.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-01-01 - Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
This abridgement of Ford Lewis Battles' Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion will better acquaint readers with the seminal work in Reformed theology. In an easy-to-read, concise format, Donald McKim follows the main development of Calvin's thought, accentuating his contributions without lingering over matters whose importance has become outdated.
Type: BOOK - Published: 1975 - Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
John Calvin was one of the most important leaders of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. In this revision of his major biography, T. H. L. Parker explores Calvin's achievement against the backdrop of the turbulent times in which he lived. With clear and concise explanations of Calvin's theology, analyses of his
