Calvin@500 : theology, history, and practice / edited by Richard R. Topping, John A. Vissers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Topping, Richard R., 1960-

Vissers, John A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564--Congresses.

Calvin, Jean.

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564--Influence--Congresses.

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvi, 182 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Calvin at 500

Calvin at five hundred

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Or. : Pickwick Publications, [2011]

Summary:

Caivin@500 is an exercise in appreciative criticism and appropriation of the Reformer's work for church and society. The collection serves as an introduction to the life and thought of this sixteenth-century Reformer in his context. The book also traces Calvin's continuing legacy for political, economic, theological, spiritual, and inter-religious practices of our own time. The essays reflect the depth and breadth of Calvin scholarship from the sixteenth century to the present. They also reflect Calvin's own wide-ranging ministry: the authors are pastors, teachers, social justice workers, and theologians. Calvin@500 arose from two Canadian conferences on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Calvin's birth. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction and acknowledgments / John A. Vissers

"The first-born in God's family" : Calvin and the Jews / William Klempa

Scripture funded : reforming Reformed imagination / Richard R. Topping

The Holy Spirit in the thoughts of John Calvin / Gerard Booy

A Reformed culture of persuasion : John Calvin's "two kingdoms" and the theological origins of the public sphere / Torrance Kirby

Calvin as apologist / Jason N. Zuidema

John Calvin and the "still-born'' third option in the French Reformation / Axel Schoeber

Pligrimage : Calvin and the rehabilitation of a Reformation renegade / Lynne McNaughton

Calvin and the preaching of the lively Word / Stehen Farris

John Calvin, refugee / R. Gerald Hobbs

A comment on Calvin's The necessity of reforming the church (1543) / Victor Shepherd

"Everyone's a part of the line of production" / Stephen Allen.

Notes:

Calvin@500 arose from two Canadian conferences on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Calvin's birth (1509), the first held at St. Andrew's Hall, Vancouver in September, 2009 and the second at the Presbyterian College, Montreal in October, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182).

ISBN:

1610971310

9781610971317

OCLC:

733230341

Publisher Number:

99945407378