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Informationen zum Autor Alister E. McGrath is Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University. He is one of the worlds leading Protestant theologians and the author of numerous popular theology textbooks, including Christian Theology (Third Edition, 2001), The Christian Theology Reader , (Second Edition, 2001), Christian Spirituality (1999), Science and Religion (1998), Historical Theology (1998), and An Introduction to Christianity (1997), all available from Blackwell Publishing. He is also editor of The Blackwell Companion to Protestantism (2003). Klappentext History occasionally produces figures whose influence on their own and successive generations is immense. Marx, Freud and Lenin had such an influence, and so, Alister McGrath argues, does John Calvin. This book provides a fresh and lucid exploration of Calvin's life and influence, his theology and his political thought, and his determining of the course of European history. It traces Calvin's remarkable impact on the development of modern Western attitudes to work, wealth, civil rights, capitalism and the natural sciences. Published to wide critical acclaim in hardback and now available in paperback, this ground-breaking study of Calvin will be welcomed by all concerned with an understanding of the shaping of modern western culture. Zusammenfassung Examines Calvin's life and his influence! his theology and his political thought! and his impact on the social and political legislature of New England. It also traces Calvin's remarkable impact on the development of modern Western attitudes to work! wealth! civil rights and capitalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Paris: The Formation of a Mind. 3. The Years of Wandering: Orleans and the Encounter with Humanism. 4. From Humanist to Reformer: The Conversion. 5. Geneva: The First Period. 6. Geneva: The Consolidation of Power. 7. Christianity according to Calvin: The Medium. 8. Christianity according to Calvin: The Message. 9. The Invasion of Ideas: Calvin and France. 10. The Genesis of a Movement. 11. Commitment to the World: Calvinism! Work and Capitalism. 12. Calvin and the Shaping of Western Culture. Appendix I: A Glossary of Theological and Historical Terms. Appendix II: Referring to Works by Calvin. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ...
