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 wellas 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.…mehr
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 wellas 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.
Irena Backus and Philip Benedict are Professers at the Institute of Reformation History, University of Geneva.
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* 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
* 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
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