Reformation letters : a fresh reading of John Calvin's correspondence / Michael Parsons ; foreword by Peter Adam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parsons, Michael, 1949- author.

Contributor:

Adam, Peter, 1946- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564--Correspondence.

Calvin, Jean.

Reformation.

Reformed Church--Switzerland--Geneva--Clergy--Correspondence.

Reformed Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 201 pages)

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick publications, 2018.

Summary:

Reformation Letters is a detailed look at John Calvin's letters, which were mostly of a pastoral nature. These were letters that define the Reformation and demonstrate Calvin's concerns, his strengths, and his weaknesses, against the background of his own time and contemporaries. Here we find Calvin on his own calling and exile from Geneva; Calvin on marriage--his own and others'; Calvin's prefatory letter to Francis I of France; Calvin's letter to Sadoleto on the nature of the Reformation; Calvin on Servetus and the reasons for his trial and execution for heresy; and Calvin's letters to those facing death and persecution.

Contents:

The "relentless drive to relate theory and practice" : John Calvin's letters

"May the Lord overrule it for good" : Calvin's letters on his own calling and return

"For the good of the whole church" : Calvin's letters on marriage

"Nothing was farther from my mind" : Calvin's prefatory letter to Francis I

"Such is our consciousness of the truth" : Calvin's letter to Cardinal Sadoleto

"Even in your criticisms, judge me with equilty" : Calvin's letters on Servetus

"To find consolation in the Lord" : Calvin's letters on grief

"It is too late to think of shrinking back" : Calvin's letters to contemporary martyrs

Conclusion

Appendix : "The gospel is set before us in his name" : a final comment.

Notes:

Previously published in the series Studies in Christian history and thought, Paternoster Press, 2016. See page [vi], series title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-188) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781532656675

153265667X