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This work makes three important contributions to Calvin studies and, more generally, adds to the growing literature on anthropology in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation. First it challenges the prevalent bias toward focusing on Calvin's doctrine of God to the neglect of his doctrine of humankind. Second, it provides an original and provocative interpretation of the overall structure of Calvin's anthropology. And third, Engel's analysis of specific issues (imago dei, reason, and faith, the will, immortality and resurrection) present helpful insights into those areas of Calvin's thought which remain controversial. 'John Calvin's Perspectival Anthropology' succeeds T.F. Torrance's Calvin's Doctrine of Man as the second full-length examination of Calvin's anthropology.

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Mary Potter Engel, Ph.D. M.F.A., is the author of the novel A Woman of Salt (Counterpoint, 2001). Her collection of linked stories, 'Strangers and Sojourners: Stories from the Lowcountry, ' is forthcoming from Counterpoint Press. Formerly Professor of Historical and Constructive Theology at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, she is the co-editor and -author of Lift 'Every Voice: Constructing Christian Theologies from the Underside' and 'Revisioning the Past: Prospects for Historical Theology.

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