Sober, strict, and scriptural : collective memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000 / / edited by Johan de Niet, Herman Paul and Bart Wallet.
Calvinism’s influence and reputation have received ample scholarly attention. But how John Calvin himself – his person, character, and deeds – was remembered, commemorated, and memorialized, is a question few historians have addressed. Focussing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this volume...
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| Superior document: | Brill's series in church history, v. 38 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's series in church history ;
v. 38. Brill's series in church history. Religious history and culture series ; v. 2. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Calvin, history, and memory / Herman Paul and Bart Wallet
- Calvin's image in Catholic France during the nineteenth century / Michele Sacquin
- French Protestants and the legacy of John Calvin: reformer and legislator / Patrick Cabanel
- Issus de Calvin: collective memories of John Calvin in Dutch neo-calvinism / Herman Paul and Johan de Niet
- Calvin's truth and Hungarian religion: remembering a reformer / Botond Gaal
- Calvin in Germany: a marginalized memory / Stefan Laube
- Servetus vs. Calvin: a battle of monuments during the secularization of the French Third Republic / Valentine Zuber
- Calvin in missionary memory and Chinese Protestant identity / Jonathan Seitz
- Calvin and anti-apartheid memory in the Dutch Reformed family of churches in South Africa / Robert Vosloo
- Calvin: a negative boundary marker in American Lutheran self-identity, 1871-1934 / R. Scott Clark
- The Republican reformer: John Calvin and the American calvinists, 1830-1910 / Bryan Bademan
- The image of Calvin within Mormonism / Stephen S. Francis
- Shadow on the Alps: John Calvin and English travellers in Geneva / James Rigney
- The French Barber: Calvin as a source of burlesque in Mark Twain / Joe B. Fulton
- The death of Adam, the resurrection of Calvin: Marilynne Robinson's alternative to an American / Thomas J. Davis.