Calvin and the Resignification of the World - Creation, Incarnation, Problem of Political Theology in 1559

Provides the first extended study of Calvin's 1559 Institutio in conversation with critical theorists of religion, modernity, sovereignty, and political theology.

List of contents

Part I. Itinerant Pedagogy: 1. Writing reform: the genre of the 1559 Institutio Christianae Religionis; Part II. Providence: 2. The practice of writing providence; 3. Providence and world affirmation; 4. Providence and governmentality; Part III. Incarnation: 5. Calvin's 'secularization' of Augustinian signification; 6. Faith resignifying understanding: atonement and election; 7. Calvin against political theology.

About the author

Michelle Chaplin Sanchez is Associate Professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School, where she teaches courses on the Protestant Reformations, intersections between Protestant theology and modern philosophy, theories of sovereignty and modernity, and other themes in Christian theology including providence and the existence of God. She has won several teaching awards, and has also published scholarly articles in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Scottish Journal of Theology, and Political Theology.

Summary

Examines Calvin's 1559 Institutes alongside critical theorists, arguing that attention to sovereignty, materiality, and teaching upsets simpler links between Protestantism, secularism, rationalism, and disenchantment. This book is for those working in religious studies, constructive theology, political theology, and debates over 'modernity'.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Chaplin Sanchez, SANCHEZ MICHELLE
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108473040
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47304-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; History of Ideas, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / Calvinist, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Western Europe, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Western Continental Europe, Medieval Western philosophy, Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches, Calvinist, Reformed and Presbyterian Churches