Jennifer Powell Mcnutt

Calvin Meets Voltaire (eBook, ePUB)

The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, 1685-1798

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Eighteenth-century Geneva offers a fascinating glimpse into the encounter between the Reformation and the Enlightenment in the figurative meeting of Calvin and Voltaire. This research supports a revisionist understanding of religion and the Enlightenment, moves beyond a simplistic paradigm of 'decline' and secularization, and highlights how Geneva's French connection ultimately uprooted a society still largely committed to its Protestant-Reformation origins.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317170105
• Artikelnr.: 49365707

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Powell McNutt is Associate Professor of Theology and History of Christianity at Wheaton College Graduate School in Wheaton, Illinois. Since being awarded a Ph.D. in history from the University of St. Andrews in 2008, she has continued to research the history of the clergy in the social, political, and cultural context as well as the transformation of the church in its institutional organization, thought, and practices from the Reformation period through the Enlightenment. In 2005, she was the recipient of the Sidney E. Mead Prize from the American Society of Church History. Currently, she is degree coordinator of the M.A. program in History of Christianity and in 2010 was ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Geneva and the revisionist Enlightenment
The 'mother church' of a new era
Clerical demographics and duties
Clerical Jeremiads and renunciations
Ministers and Philosophes
Reasonable Calvinism: from the pulpit to the pew
Clergy and the work of state-building
Conclusion: the French connection
Appendixes
Index.