John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait

Historians have credited--or blamed--Calvinism for many developments in the modern world, including capitalism, modern science, secularization, democracy,...
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Author: William J. Bouwsma
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Language: English
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John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait by Bouwsma, William J.

John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait

¥13,737

John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait

¥13,737
Author: William J. Bouwsma
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Historians have credited--or blamed--Calvinism for many developments in the modern world, including capitalism, modern science, secularization, democracy, individualism, and unitarianism. These same historians, however, have largely ignored John Calvin the man. When people consider him at all, they tend to view him as little more than the joyless tyrant of Geneva who created an abstract theology as forbidding as himself.
This volume, written by the eminent historian William J. Bouwsma, who has devoted his career to exploring the larger patterns of early modern European history, seeks to redress these common misconceptions of Calvin by placing him back in the proper historical context of his time.
Eloquently depicting Calvin's life as a French exile, a humanist in the tradition of Erasmus, and a man unusually sensitive to the complexities and contradictions of later Renaissance culture, Bouwsma reveals a surprisingly human, plausible, ecumenical, and often sympathetic Calvin. John Calvin offers a brilliant reassessment not only of Calvin but also of the Reformation and its relationship to the movements of the Renaissance.


Author: William J. Bouwsma
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/17/1989
Pages: 310
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.14w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780195059519

About the Author

William J. Bouwsma is Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the author of the highly-acclaimed Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter-Reformation.



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