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
- Part V Calvin’s Influences
- 34 Calvin and Luther
- 35 Calvin and Melanchthon
- 36 Calvin and the Swiss and South German Evangelicals
- 37 Calvin’s Friends
- 38 Calvin’s Critics
- 39 Calvin’s Lutheran Critics
- 40 Calvin’s Catholic Critics
- 41 Calvin and the Anabaptists
- Part VI Calvin’s Reception
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
34 - Calvin and Luther
from Part V - Calvin’s Influences
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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
- Part V Calvin’s Influences
- 34 Calvin and Luther
- 35 Calvin and Melanchthon
- 36 Calvin and the Swiss and South German Evangelicals
- 37 Calvin’s Friends
- 38 Calvin’s Critics
- 39 Calvin’s Lutheran Critics
- 40 Calvin’s Catholic Critics
- 41 Calvin and the Anabaptists
- Part VI Calvin’s Reception
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
The historical question of the personal and theological relationship between Martin Luther and John Calvin has long been freighted with larger questions of Evangelical identity. Calvin, in his published and epistolary rhetoric, deliberately constructed the image of a positive but critical attitude toward Luther, which he used to establish his own place in the Reformation. Luther’s own positive but qualified opinion of Calvin, however, came to be distorted by transmission by different parties in the theological disputes of the succeeding generation.1
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- John Calvin in Context , pp. 299 - 309Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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Suggested Further Readings
Gerrish, B. A. “John Calvin on Luther.” In Interpreters of Luther: Essays in Honor of Wilhelm Pauk, ed. Pelikan, Jaroslav. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1968, 67–96.Google Scholar
Gordon, Bruce. “Martin Luther and John Calvin.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther, ed. Nelson, Derek R. and Hinlicky, Paul. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.313.Google Scholar
Holder, R. Ward, ed. Calvin and Luther: The Continuing Relationship. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Selderhuis, Herman J. “Luther and Calvin.” In Martin Luther: A Christian between Reforms and Modernity (1517–2017), ed. Melloni, Alberto. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017, 1: 401–416.Google Scholar