Calvin and the Early Reformation

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-35994-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 219, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

Those who have a passing knowledge of John Calvin’s theology and reforms in Geneva in the sixteenth century may picture the confident and mature theologian and preacher without appreciating the various events, people, and circumstances that shaped the man. Before there was Protestantism’s first and eminent systematic theologian, there was the French youth, the law student and humanist, the Protestant convert and homeless exile, the reluctant reformer and anguished city leader. Snapshots of the young Calvin create a collage that give a bigger picture to the grey-bearded Protestant reformer. Eleven scholars of early-modern history have joined in this volume to depict the people, movements, politics, education, sympathizers, nemeses, and controversies from which Calvin immerged in his young adulthood.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brewer, Brian C

Whitford, David M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Contributors

1 Calvin and the Early Reformation

David M. Whitford

2 Calvin, Erasmus and Humanist Theology

Greta Grace Kroeker

3 The Intellectual, Political, and Legal Milieu in France during the Life of John Calvin

James K. Farge

4 Sixteenth-Century French Legal Education and Calvin’s Legal Education

Christoph Strohm

5 The Meaux Group and John Calvin

Jonathan A. Reid

6 The Sounds and Silence of the Early Reformation in Geneva in Jeanne de Jussie’s Short Chronicle

Carrie F. Klaus

7 Calvin, Farel, Roussel, and the French “Nicodemites”

Michael W. Bruening

8 ‘Those Satanic Anabaptists’: Calvin, Soul Sleep and the Search for an Anabaptist Nemesis

Brian C. Brewer

9 Confessions, Conscience, and Coercion in the Early Calvin

John L. Thompson

10 John Calvin and the First Eucharistic Controversy

Amy Nelson Burnett

11 Calvin on the Early Reformation

Barbara Pitkin

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brian C. Brewer, Ph.D. (2003), Drew University, is Professor of Christian Theology at the George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University, where he teaches historical theology of the Reformation. He is the author of Martin Luther and the Seven Sacraments: A Contemporary Protestant Reappraisal (Baker, 2017) and A Pledge of Love: The Anabaptist Sacramental Theology of Balthasar Hubmaier (Paternoster, 2012).

David M. Whitford, Ph.D. (1999), Boston University, is Professor of Reformation Studies at Baylor University. A senior editor of The Sixteenth Century Journal, he is the author of A Reformation Life (Praeger, 2015) and The Curse of Ham in the Early Modern Era (Ashgate, 2009), and editor of Martin Luther in Context (Cambridge, 2018).