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John Calvin was a leader of the European Reformation of the sixteenth century and the influence of his thought remains crucial in our world. This collection explores the origins of Calvin's thought and the theological, historical, and cultural circumstances in which they have evolved from Geneva to our times.
List of contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- 1: Bruce Gordon and Carl R. Trueman: Introduction
- 2: Ueli Zahnd: Calvin, Calvinism, and Medieval Thought
- 3: Emily Theus: Divine and Human Agency in Calvin's Institutes
- 4: Pierrick Hildebrand: Calvin and the Covenant: The Reception of Zurich Theology
- 5: Alexander Batson: Calvin and Equity
- 6: Arnold Huijgen: Calvin's Old Testament Theology and Beyond: The Approaches of A.A. van Ruler and K.H. Miskotte
- 7: Barbara Pitkin: John Calvin's Vision of Reform, Historical Thinking, and the Modern World
- 8: Karen E. Spierling: Calvin's Geneva: An Imperfect 'School of Christ'
- 9: Robert Harkins: Calvinism, Anti-Calvinism, and the Admonition Controversy in Elizabethan England
- 10: Jane Dawson: John Knox and John Calvin
- 11: Michele Camaioni: John Calvin, Bernardino Ochino, and Italian 'Heretics': History and Historiography of a controversial exchange
- 12: Claire McEachern: Calvin, Shakespeare, and Suspense
- 13: Christopher Ocker: Calvin and Calvinism in Germany
- 14: Steven J. Reid: Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Scotland
- 15: Jesse Spohnholz: Reformed Exiles and International Calvinism in Reformation-Era Europe
- 16: Mark Valeri: The First Calvinist Encounters with New World Religions
- 17: Costas Gaganakis: Historia Sacra, Historia Humana: Calvinist debates on History
- 18: William A. Dyrness: Hiding in Plain Sight: Theology and Visual Culture in Early Modern Calvinism
- 19: Henk Nellen: The Effects of Confessional Strife on Religious Authority in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
- 20: Timothy Cooper: Calvinism among Seventeenth-Century English Puritans
- 21: Hunter Powell: Cromwellian Calvinism: England's Church and the End of the Puritan Revolution
- 22: R. Bradley Holden: Protestantism as Liberalism: John Milton and the Struggle against Implicit Faith
- 23: Aza Goudriaan: Seventeenth-Century Calvinism and Early Enlightenment Thought
- 24: Kenneth P. Minkema: Angels from John Calvin to Jonathan Edwards via John Milton
- 25: Steven M. Harris: 1. Religion and the Republic: An Eighteenth-Century Black Calvinist Perspective
- 26: Jonathan Yeager: Eighteenth-Century Evangelical Calvinists
- 27: Randall C. Zachman: Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Reformed Tradition in the Modern Era
- 28: Annette G. Aubert: Old Princeton and European Scholarship
- 29: Carl R. Trueman: Classical Calvinism and the Problem of Development: William Cunningham's Critique of John Henry Newman
- 30: Bruce Gordon: Writing the Nineteenth-Century Scottish Calvinist Self: Spiritual Autobiography and Reformed Identity
- 31: John Halsey Wood, Jr.: Unity and Engagement: Abraham Kuyper's Calvinist Renewal
- 32: Ryan Glomsrud: Karl Barth's Calvin: A Weimar Prophet
- 33: Byunghoon Kim: Calvinism and Reformed Confessions in Korean Presbyterian Church
- 34: Alexander Chow: Calvinism as a Chinese Contextual Theology
- 35: Heber Campos, Jr.: (Re)Discoveries of the Reformed Faith in Brazil
- 36: Adam Mohr: Enchanted Calvinism: Healing and Deliverance in Ghana
- 37: Shannon Craigo-Snell: Reforming Calvinism
- 38: D.G. Hart: No Other Gods: Calvinism and Secular Society
- 39: Flynn Cratty: The New Calvinism
About the author
Bruce Gordon is the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School.
Carl R. Trueman is Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College.
Summary
John Calvin was a leader of the European Reformation of the sixteenth century and the influence of his thought remains crucial in our world. This collection explores the origins of Calvin's thought and the theological, historical, and cultural circumstances in which they have evolved from Geneva to our times.
Additional text
The various essays in this handbook succeed in contributing to scholarship on Calvin and Calvinism by giving the reader a penetrating glimpse into the complexities of Calvin's thought as well as showing how his thought was received and even transformed by future generations. Overall, the essays contained therein are of an excellent quality and, given the breadth of topics covered (for example, historical theology, global and contemporary Christianity), there is almost something for everyone.
