John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion : : A Biography / / Bruce Gordon.
John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion is a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology. First published in Latin in 1536 and in Calvin's native French in 1541, the Institutes argues for the majesty of God and for justification by faith alone. The book...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lives of Great Religious Books ;
25 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on The Translation Used
- Introduction: Remembering a Man and His Book
- Chapter 1. A Book Emerges
- Chapter 2. 1559: The Year of the Book
- Chapter 3. The Inheritors
- Chapter 4. Enlightenment Ambivalence
- Chapter 5. Fashioning a Reformer
- Chapter 6. America's Calvins
- Chapter 7. "A Very Calvinist Professor" and His Dutch Friends
- Chapter 8. Titans: Barth and Brunner
- Chapter 9. Prophet of Modernity - Prince of Tyrants
- Chapter 10. Oppression and Liberation: South Africa
- Chapter 11. Change and Dissent: China
- Chapter 12. Contemporary Voices
- Afterword
- Appendix 1. Burning a Man and His Books: Michael Servetus and John Calvin
- Appendix 2. Calvin's Editions of Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Notes
- Index