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During the glory days of the French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a profound conversion to the faith of the Reformation. For the rest of his days he lived out the implications of that transformation-as exile, inspired reformer, and ultimately the dominant figure of the Protestant Reformation. Calvin's vision of the Christian religion has inspired many volumes of analysis, but this engaging biography examines a remarkable life. Bruce Gordon presents Calvin as a human being, a man at once brilliant, arrogant, charismatic, unforgiving, generous, and shrewd.The book explores with particular insight Calvin's self-conscious view of himself as prophet and apostle for his age and his struggle to tame a sense of his own superiority, perceived by others as arrogance. Gordon looks at Calvin's character, his maturing vision of God and humanity, his personal tragedies and failures, his extensive relationships with others, and the context within which he wrote and taught. What emerges is a man who devoted himself to the Church, inspiring and transforming the lives of others, especially those who suffered persecution for their religious beliefs.
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This volume presents texts selected from the full range of John Calvin's writings, including excerpts from commentaries, sermons, letters, catechisms, tracts, broad-based theological works.
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The Calvin year 2009 began on October 31, 2008 with a conference organized by the Institute for Reformation Research (Apeldoorn) on the topic Calvin: Saint or Sinner? A number of scholars dealt with the question of whether and how Calvin brought a renewal to theology, the church and society. This volume contains the papers held at this conference, which demonstrate the detailed and growing research on the reformer of Geneva. Since the contributions reflect the latest research in Calvin studies, the conclusions reached in many of the papers are surprising. Calvin was not a reformer in all respects in the original sense, as some would have wanted him to be. However on other subjects he definitely distanced himself from tradition and from his fellow reformers. All in all, this volume gives an overview of the many facets of John Calvin and his theology.
Reformation --- Calvinism --- Réforme (Christianisme) --- Calvinisme --- Biography --- Biographie --- Calvin, Jean, --- 2 CALVIN, JEAN --- Godsdienst. Theologie--CALVIN, JEAN --- 2 CALVIN, JEAN Godsdienst. Theologie--CALVIN, JEAN --- Réforme (Christianisme) --- Calvijn, Johannes --- Calvin, Jean --- Calvinus, Johannes --- Calvin, Jean, - 1509-1564 - Congresses --- Calvin, Jean, - 1509-1564 --- Religion / Christianity / History --- Religion --- Frühe Neuzeit --- Calvin --- Kirchengeschichte --- Systematische Theologie
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In this lucid and readable study, Michael Mullet explains the historical importance of a man and a movement whose influence are still felt in the modern world. The pamphlet locates John Calvin in the context of early 16th-century France and then charts his emergence as an influential theologian and civic religious leader in the 'second generation' of reformers following Luther. After exploring the main lines of Calvin's theology, set out in the Institutes, the central section deals with the difficult process by which his authority was imposed on, or accepted by, Geneva. Finally, the
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En 1526, un jeune catholique nommé Jean Calvin, âgé de 17 ans, rejoint la prestigieuse université de droit d'Orléans. Jusqu'en 1533, à Orléans et à Bourges, Calvin côtoie des étudiants appelés à devenir des personnalités célèbres. Il s'imprègne des enseignements de grands professeurs, parmi lesquels Pierre de l'Estoile, André Alciat et Melchior Wolmar. Au contact des nombreux étudiants germaniques qui peuplent les universités d'Orléans et de Bourges, pour la plupart luthériens, dans une atmosphère humaniste particulièrement féconde et stimulante, il apprivoise les idées évangéliques. Ces années de formation, foisonnantes de découvertes et d'ouvertures intellectuelles, furent fondamentales dans la construction de la pensée originale de Calvin. Dans ce livre, c'est d'abord la question de la genèse d'une pensée émancipée qui est posée. Comment et pourquoi un jeune étudiant catholique bascule-t-il de l'humanisme chrétien à la dissidence religieuse ? Orléans et Bourges furent des étapes vers une radicalité qui se développe réellement à Paris, particulièrement dans le contexte des débuts de la persécution anti-protestante en France. Tour à tour sont abordées la force de la pensée politique de Calvin, la puissance de son verbe, et enfin ses conceptions économiques, sociales et environnementales.
Calvin, John --- 2 CALVIN, JEAN --- Godsdienst. Theologie--CALVIN, JEAN --- Conferences - Meetings --- 2 CALVIN, JEAN Godsdienst. Theologie--CALVIN, JEAN --- Religion --- Medieval & Renaissance Studies --- Renaissance --- humanisme --- théologie --- Réforme --- histoire religieuse --- Réforme catholique
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This study examines the influence of John Calvin in ethics eschatology and education, as well as those influences that affected him. It examines his writings to determine if his vision made him an innovator. The research searched for reforms in the areas of ethics, curriculum, understanding of the teaching office, and universal education. It also looked at philosophy, economics, and labor. A belief in the after life and end times was an ethical motivation for Calvin and education was a mea...
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"Besser werden, schöner werden, leistungsfähiger werden! Selbstoptimierung liegt im Trend. Was haben Theologie und Kirche dazu zu sagen? Sollen sie den Mahnfinger heben und ein kulturpessimistisches Lied anstimmen? -- "Oder sie könnten eigene Ressourcen aktivieren, die das Potential der diskursiven Kompatibilität mit Selbstverbesserungsphänomenen aufweisen. -- "Dies versucht die vorliegende Arbeit und bringt den Enhancement-Diskurs aus Bioethik und Biomedizin in gegenwartshermeneutischer Absicht mit dem reformierten Lokus der Heiligung am Beispiel von Johannes Calvin ins Gespräch. -- "Sie vertritt dabei die These, dass die Stärke und Aktualität von Calvins Theologie im Zusammendenken von Anspruch und Entlastung liegen. Sie wertschätzt die - auch verbessernde - Leistung des Menschen und kann dieselbe gleichzeitig als vollendet durch Gottes Wirken wissen." --Provided by publisher. Be better, be more beautiful, perform better! Self-optimization is all the rage. What do theology and the church have to say about it? Should they issue a warning and strike up a cultural pessimistic tune? Maybe they could activate their own resources, which have the potential for discursive compatibility with phenomena of self-improvement. This study brings the discourse of enhancement into dialogue with the locus of healing in Calvin.
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Randall C. Zachman places Calvin in conversation with theologians such as Pascal, Kierkegaard, Ezra the Scribe, Julian of Norwich and Karl Barth, and attends to themes in Calvin's theology which are often overlooked. Zachman draws out Calvin's use of astronomy and great concern to see ourselves in comparison to the immensity of the universe, acknowledging in wonder and awe our nothingness before God. Throughout, Zachman presents a Calvin who seeks a route out of self-deception to self-knowledge, though Kierkegaard shows that it is love, and not judgment, that most deeply reveals us to ourselves. The book discusses Calvin's understanding of the election of the Jews and their relationship to God, and further reconsiders Calvin's understanding of judgment and how the call to love our neighbour is undermined by the formation of alliances.
Theology. --- Christian theology --- Theology --- Theology, Christian --- Christianity --- Religion --- Calvin, Jean, --- Calvijn, Johannes --- Calvin, Jean --- Calvinus, Johannes --- Arts and Humanities
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