Author: Jean CalvinPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Letters of John Calvin
Author: Jean CalvinLetters of John Calvin
Author: Jean CalvinLetters of John Calvin
Author: Jean CalvinLetters
Author: Jean CalvinLetters of John Calvin
Author: Jean CalvinLetters of John Calvin
Author: Jean CalvinLetters of John Calvin
Author: John CalvinPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556352468
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1902
Book Description
This English edition of the epistolary writings of Calvin, complete in four volumes, contains six hundred sixty-eight letters, last discourses, and an appendix of eighteen additional letters. The letters here are selected from the Paris edition, which embraces the originals of all that are extant, and represent our most complete English edition of Calvin's letters. The industry of Calvin and the reach of his power, as disclosed in these products of his pen, are well sketched in a few lines of the preface. ÒInvested, in virtue of his surpassing genius, with an almost universal apostolate, he wielded an influence as varied and as plastic as his activity. He exhorts with the same authority the humble ministers of the Gospel and the powerful monarchs of England, Sweden, and Poland. He holds communion with Luther and Melanchthon, animates Knox, encourages Coligny, Conde, Jeanne d'Albret, and the Duchess of Ferrara; while in his familiar letters to Farel, Viret, and Theodore Beza, he pours out the overflowings of a heart filled with the deepest and most acute sensibility.
Letters to a Young Calvinist
Author: James K. A. SmithPublisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1587432943
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
At a time when definitions of Calvinism are hotly contested, this book provides a vision of the Reformed faith that is generous, winsome, and imaginative.
John Calvin
Author: Jean CalvinPublisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809105410
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This volume translates selected works of John Calvin (1509-1564), the great reformer of Geneva, with special emphasis on his piety.
A Reformation Debate
Author: John C. OlinPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823219925
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
In 1539, Cardinal Jacopo Sadoleto, Bishop of Carpentras, addressed a letter to the magistrates and citizens of Geneva, asking them to return to the Roman Catholic faith. John Calvin replied to Sadoleto, defending the adoption of the Protestant reforms. Sadoleto’s letter and Calvin’s reply constitute one of the most interesting exchanges of Roman Catholic/Protestant views during the Reformationand an excellent introduction to the great religious controversy of the sixteenth century. These statements are not in vacuo of a Roman Catholic and Protestant position. They were drafted in the midst of the religious conflict that was then dividing Europe. And they reflect too the temperaments and personal histories of the men who wrote them. Sadoleto’s letter has an irenic approach, an emphasis on the unity and peace of the Church, highly characteristic of the Christian Humanism he represented. Calvin’s reply is in part a personal defense, an apologia pro vita sua, that records his own religious experience. And its taut, comprehensive argument is characteristic of the disciplined and logical mind of the author of The Institutes of the Christian Religion.