Calvin and His Influence, 1509-2009

by Irena Backus (Editor), Philip Benedict (Editor)

Overview

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. The organizers chose as theme for the conference ''Calvin and His Influence 1509-2009,'' hoping to stimulate reflection about what Calvin's ideas and example have meant across the five centuries since his lifetime, as well as about how much validity the classic interpretations that have linked his legacy to fundamental features of modernity such as democracy, capitalism, or science still retain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199911387
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/08/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Irena Backus and Philip Benedict are Professors at the Institute for Reformation History at the University of Geneva.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Irena Backus and Philip Benedict

Chapter One: Calvin:
Fifth Latin Doctor of the Church?
Diarmaid MacCulloch

Chapter Two: The Ideal of Aristocratia Politiae Vicina in the Calvinist Political Tradition
Harro Höpfl

Chapter Three: Calvin the Workaholic
Max Engammare

Chapter Four: Calvin's Self-Awareness as Author
Olivier Millet

Chapter Five: Calvin's Church in Geneva:
Constructed or Gathered? Local or Foreign? French or Swiss?
William Naphy

Chapter Six: Calvin, the Swiss Reformed Churches, and the European Reformation
Emidio Campi

Chapter Seven: Calvin 1509-2009
Herman Selderhuis

Chapter Eight: Calvinism as an Actor in the Early Modern State System around 1600:
Struggle For Alliances; Patterns of Eschatological Interpretation; Symbolic Representation
Heinz Schilling

Chapter Nine: Reception and Response:
Referencing and Understanding Calvin in Seventeenth-Century Calvinism
Richard Muller

Chapter Ten: The Dutch Enlightenment and the Distant Calvin
Ernestine van der Wall

Chapter Eleven: Lost, then Found:
Calvin in French Protestantism, 1830-1940
André Encrevé

Chapter Twelve: Calvin in the Plural:
The Diversity of Modern Interpretations of Calvinism, especially in Germany and the English-Speaking World
Friedrich W. Graf

Chapter Thirteen: Calvin, Modern Calvinism and Civil Society:
The Appropriation of a Heritage, with Particular Reference to the Low Countries
Cornelis van der Kooi

Chapter Fourteen: Calvin and British Evangelicalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
David Bebbington

Chapter Fifteen: Calvin(ism) and Apartheid in South Africa in the Twentieth Century: The Making and Unmaking of a Racial Ideology
John W. de Gruchy

Index

Editorial Reviews

"This volume of thoughtful and nuanced essays faithfully echoes Calvin's sense of himself as a scriptural teacher and pastor, and as one theologian among many, albeit an exceptional one. It explores his relationship with his contemporaries and with subsequent traditions in a carefully balanced way. Calvin would surely have approved."—Euan Cameron, Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History, Union Theological Seminary

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