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Calvin, A Biography : A Biography
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cottret, Bernard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.
- Geneva (Switzerland)--Biography.
- Geneva (Switzerland)--Church history--16th century.
- Reformation--Switzerland--Geneva--Biography.
- Reformed Church--Switzerland--Geneva--Clergy--Biography.
- Local Subjects:
- Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.
- Geneva (Switzerland)--Biography.
- Geneva (Switzerland)--Church history--16th century.
- Reformation--Switzerland--Geneva--Biography.
- Reformed Church--Switzerland--Geneva--Clergy--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (393 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Continuum International Publishing, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. CottretGÇÖs Calvin is not the GÇÿstaticGÇÖ theologian of earlier biographies, but a man of enormous vigour, constantly on the move in his thinking as well as in his life. Professor Cottret introduces the reader to the world into which Calvin was born, and follows him from childhood to humanistic and literary pursuits in Basel, to ministry in Geneva, to the halcyon Strasbourg years and finally back to Geneva. The vital issues
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Introduction: John Calvin, an Unfinishd Portrait; 1. The Heavens at a Birth: July 10, 1509; 2. Dwarfs Perched on the Shoulders of Giants; 3. To Be Twenty-One in 1530; 4. The Most Dreadful Popish Mass: 1533-34; 5. The Lovers of Jesus Christ: 1535-36; 6. From Basel to Geneva: 1536-38; 7. Geneva or Strasbourg? 1538-41; 8. Geneva, a City of God? The Middle Years of the Century; 9. The Somber Years: 1547-55; 10. The Trail of the Heretics: Bolsec, Servetus, Castellio; 11. To Thee the Glory; 12. Calvin the Polemicist; 13. Calvin the Preacher; 14. The Institutes of the Christian Religion
- 15. Calvin, French WriterSelect Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613200372
- 9781283200370
- 1283200376
- 9780567530356
- 0567530353
- OCLC:
- 745866110
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