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A major new authoritative and comprehensive biography, shedding new light on the life and personality of the great Reformer - and the milieu in which he lived and worked. Cottret's Calvin is not the ‘static' theologian of earlier biographies, but a man of enormous vigour, constantly on the move in his thinking as well as in his life. Professor Cottret introduces the reader to the world into which Calvin was born, and follows him from childhood to humanistic and literary pursuits in Basel, to ministry in Geneva, to the halcyon Strasbourg years and finally back to Geneva. The vital issues of the day are encountered as it were through Calvin's eyes, as the author leads the reader through the dramatic upheavals of sixteenth-century Europe. A classic biography which will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars for years to come. Praise for Calvin: 'A tour de force. . . Cottret has avoided the trap of painting a character who would have had, from the beginning, all of the traits of his later years, and endeavours to show how Calvin became Calvin. . . Brilliant.' --Le Monde 'This excellent book regards the French Reformer with new eyes. . . Cottret mixes seriousness and welcome humour. For the public interested in a history of Protestanism, this book is full of reflections of the spirit of the Reformation.' --Les Livres du Mois ""Bernard Cottret is an accomplished and successful writer . . . He has an idiosyncratic style that mixes narrative and professional bon mots of a cold philosophical nature . . . Cottret is also the first of recent biographers [. . .] to make extensive use of Calvin's sermons, many of which languished unpublished until recently. Calvin had grave doubts about the publication of such works and thought them fit only for a local and transitory audience; but it is here, in this less guarded medium, that Calvin's skill as a teacher and expositor shines forth with greatest clarity."" --English Historical Review

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Author:   Bernard Cottret
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   T.& T.Clark Ltd
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9780567089618

ISBN 10:   0567089614
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   22 May 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction: John Calvin, an Unfinished Portrait Part I: Youth of a Reformer The Heavens at a Birth: July 10, 1509 Dwarfs Perched on the Shoulders of Giants To Be Twenty-One in 1530 The Most Deadful Popish Mass: 1533-34 The Lovers of Jesus Christ: 1535-36 Part II: Organisation and Resistance From Basel to Geneva: 1536-38 Geneva or Strasbourg? 1538-41 Introduction: John Calvin, an Unfinished Portrait Part I: Youth of a Reformer The Heavens at a Birth: July 10, 1509 Dwarfs Perched on the Shoulders of Giants To Be Twenty-One in 1530 The Most Deadful Popish Mass: 1533-34 The Lovers of Jesus Christ: 1535-36 Part II: Organisation and Resistance From Basel to Geneva: 1536-38 Geneva or Strasbourg? 1538-41 Introduction: John Calvin, an Unfinished Portrait Part I: Youth of a Reformer 1. The Heavens at a Birth: July 10, 1509 2. Dwarfs Perched on the Shoulders of Giants 3. To Be Twenty-One in 1530 4. The Most Deadful Popish Mass: 1533-34 5. The Lovers of Jesus Christ: 1535-36 Part II: Organisation and Resistance 6. From Basel to Geneva: 1536-38 7. Geneva or Strasbourg? 1538-41 8. Geneva, a City of God? The Middle Years of the Century 9. The Somber Years: 1547-55 10. The Trail of the Heretics: Bolsec, Servetus, Castellio 11. To Thee the Glory Part III: Beliefs 12. Calvin the Polemicist 13. Calvin the Preacher 14. The Institutes of the Christian Religion 15. Calvin, French Writer Conclusion: Saint Luther, Saint Calvin, Saint Jansenius

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