Book contents
- John Calvin in Context
- John Calvin in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I France and Its Influence
- Part II Switzerland, Southern Germany, and Geneva
- Part III Empire and Society
- Part IV The Religious Question
- 19 Western Ideals of Religious Reform
- 20 The Luther Affair
- 21 Religious Colloquies
- 22 The Council of Trent and the Augsburg Interim
- 23 Biblical Scholarship
- 24 The Printed Word
- 25 Polemic’s Purpose
- 26 The Style of Theology
- 27 Baptism
- 28 The Eucharist
- 29 Predestination in Early Modern Thought
- 30 The Challenge of Heresy
- 31 Early Modern Christianity and Idolatry
- 32 Trinitarian Controversies
- 33 Nicodemism and Libertinism
- Part V Calvin’s Influences
- Part VI Calvin’s Reception
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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Book contents
- John Calvin in Context
- John Calvin in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I France and Its Influence
- Part II Switzerland, Southern Germany, and Geneva
- Part III Empire and Society
- Part IV The Religious Question
- 19 Western Ideals of Religious Reform
- 20 The Luther Affair
- 21 Religious Colloquies
- 22 The Council of Trent and the Augsburg Interim
- 23 Biblical Scholarship
- 24 The Printed Word
- 25 Polemic’s Purpose
- 26 The Style of Theology
- 27 Baptism
- 28 The Eucharist
- 29 Predestination in Early Modern Thought
- 30 The Challenge of Heresy
- 31 Early Modern Christianity and Idolatry
- 32 Trinitarian Controversies
- 33 Nicodemism and Libertinism
- Part V Calvin’s Influences
- Part VI Calvin’s Reception
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
“The die is cast.”1 Calvin’s words in his 1532 letter from Paris to François Daniel indicated his enthusiasm at publishing his commentary on Seneca’s De Clementia, which Calvin hoped would launch his career as a brilliant humanist. His audience, in this case, was the Republic of Letters; that pan-European collection of scholars, notaries, court officials, poets, lawyers, and academics to whom he sought to ingratiate himself. Eight years later, he published his Commentarii in epistolam Pauli ad Romanos, from Strasbourg. The juxtaposition of similar and dissimilar elements in these two works opens up a fascinating window into the character of biblical commentaries and, more broadly, scholarship in the sixteenth century.
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