Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of CalvinismThis sweeping and eminently readable book is the first synthetic history of Calvinism in almost fifty years. It tells the story of the Reformed tradition from its birth in the cities of Switzerland to the unraveling of orthodoxy amid the new intellectual currents of the seventeenth century. As befits a pan-European movement, Benedict’s canvas stretches from the British Isles to Eastern Europe. The course and causes of Calvinism’s remarkable expansion, the inner workings of the diverse national churches, and the theological debates that shaped Reformed doctrine all receive ample attention. The English Reformation is situated within the history of continental Protestantism in a way that reveals the international significance of English developments. A fresh examination of Calvinist worship, piety, and discipline permits an up-to-date assessment of the classic theories linking Calvinism to capitalism and democracy. Benedict not only paints a vivid picture of the greatest early spokesmen of the cause, Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin, but also restores many lesser-known figures to their rightful place. Ambitious in conception, attentive to detail, this book offers a model of how to think about the history and significance of religious change across the long Reformation era. |
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... Calvin the Theologian Calvin's International Influence Conclusion to Part I. Cooperating Allies, Contrasting Models of Christian Community 77 78 82 93 109 115 PART II THE EXPANSION OF A TRADITION 121 4. France: The Construction and ...
... Calvin the Theologian Calvin's International Influence Conclusion to Part I. Cooperating Allies, Contrasting Models of Christian Community 77 78 82 93 109 115 PART II THE EXPANSION OF A TRADITION 121 4. France: The Construction and ...
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... Calvin's Correspondence , 1542–63 5. France 6. The Reformed Churches of France ca. 1562 7. Scotland 8. The Netherlands 9. The Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth 10. Hungary GRAPHS 3.1 . The Volume of Calvin's Publications Compared with ...
... Calvin's Correspondence , 1542–63 5. France 6. The Reformed Churches of France ca. 1562 7. Scotland 8. The Netherlands 9. The Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth 10. Hungary GRAPHS 3.1 . The Volume of Calvin's Publications Compared with ...
Page xvii
... Calvin's vision of church and state acting as coordinate but separate instruments for the advancement of God's law was said to encourage the defense of mixed constitutions. No single historian or social scientist ever formulated as ...
... Calvin's vision of church and state acting as coordinate but separate instruments for the advancement of God's law was said to encourage the defense of mixed constitutions. No single historian or social scientist ever formulated as ...
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... Calvin commentators would stress, suffice by themselves to capture what is most characteristic or most essential in Cal- vin's own thought. Still less can they be taken to identify the essential features of the larger tradition to which ...
... Calvin commentators would stress, suffice by themselves to capture what is most characteristic or most essential in Cal- vin's own thought. Still less can they be taken to identify the essential features of the larger tradition to which ...
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... Calvin, was a supremely eloquent, supremely de- termined outsider who had grown up in the milieu of the pre-Reformation church courts and who believed that the Bible clearly specified the offices and disciplinary institutions of the ...
... Calvin, was a supremely eloquent, supremely de- termined outsider who had grown up in the milieu of the pre-Reformation church courts and who believed that the Bible clearly specified the offices and disciplinary institutions of the ...
Contents
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PART III THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF A TRADITION | 293 |
PART IV NEW CALVINIST MEN AND WOMEN? | 429 |
Notes | 547 |
Index | 657 |
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