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Author : William Stanford Reid
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book John Calvin, His Influence in the Western World written by William Stanford Reid and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alister E. McGrath
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780631189473
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Life of John Calvin written by Alister E. McGrath and published by Blackwell Publishing. This book was released on 1993-10-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best sources for understanding the impact of John Calvin, McGrath's work updates The History and Character of Calvinism by John T. McNeill with a fascinating biography that also explores Calvin's cultural importance.
Author : David W. Hall
Publisher : Calvin 500
ISBN 13 : 9781596380851
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Legacy of John Calvin written by David W. Hall and published by Calvin 500. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hall identifies ten seminal ways that Calvin's thought transformed the culture of the West, complete with a nontechnical biography of Calvin and tributes by other leaders. The Legacy of John Calvin is brief enough for popular audiences and analytical enough to provide much information in a short space.
Author : Irena Backus
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199751846
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Calvin and His Influence, 1509-2009 written by Irena Backus and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays collected in this volume were originally prepared as plenary addresses to the international conference 'Calvin and his influence, 1509-2009.' held in Geneva from May 24 to 27, 2009."--P. vii.
Author : Robert L. Reymond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857929669
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book John Calvin written by Robert L. Reymond and published by . This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...despite his stern Calvinist upbringing" - Why is it that in the modern media the word 'Calvinist' is always accompanied by 'stern', 'dour' or 'strict'? Most of the people who use the terms together have next to no knowledge of what Calvinism is - and know even less about who Calvin was. An old-style reactionary? A hard-line ayatollah, raging at the world without any thought? - or is there more to this man than uninformed contemporary critics would have us believe? Robert Reymond brings us John Calvin the man. A reality quite different from the caricature often painted today. Here is a man of deep spirituality with a real love for his fellow man and God. A man also with tremendous intellectual abilities. Whether the moniker 'stern Calvinist' is applicable or not - his life has much to teach us.
Author : Thomas Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195390989
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book John Calvin's American Legacy written by Thomas Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the ways Calvin and the Calvinist tradition have influenced American life. In addition, each section moves chronologically, ranging from colonial times to the 21st century.
Author : W. Robert Godfrey
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433521504
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book John Calvin written by W. Robert Godfrey and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the essential life and thought of one of history's most influential theologians, who considered himself first and foremost a pilgrim and a pastor. July 10, 2009, marks the five-hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Calvin. As controversial as he was influential, his critics have named a judgmental and joyless attitude after him, while his admirers celebrate him as the principal theologian of Reformed Christianity. Yet his impact is unmistakable-a primary developer of western civilization whose life and work have deeply affected five centuries' worth of pastors, scholars, and individuals. What will surprise the readers of this book, however, is that Calvin did not live primarily to influence future generations. Rather, he considered himself first and foremost a spiritual pilgrim and a minister of the Word in the church of his day. It was from that "essential" Calvin that all his influence flowed. Here is an introduction to Calvin's life and thought and essence: a man who moved people not through the power of personality but through passion for the Word, a man who sought to serve the gospel in the most humble of roles.
Author : John Calvin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400096480
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book John Calvin: Steward of God's Covenant written by John Calvin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of the writings of John Calvin (1509—1564) is the first for general readers to appear in many years. It showcases his powerful legacy, which has had far-reaching consequences for the development of religion and culture in Western Europe and in the shaping of American identity. Calvin was a prodigious preacher and writer, and his sermons, Bible commentaries, tracts, and letters fill dozens of volumes. The works chosen for John Calvin: Steward of God’s Covenant highlight ideas central to the Reformation but also to his influence on modern life, e.g., the importance of a work ethic and the notion of being “called” to action in the world; his belief in universal education for boys and girls; and his belief in the sanctity and freedom of individual conscience. Calvin’s theology of the “elect” of God motivated the English and Dutch Calvinists who settled the Atlantic seaboard, their Promised Land. The traditions of their communities and churches and laws produced the widespread present-day American belief in a divinely favored national destiny. In her brilliant preface to this edition, Pulitzer Prize—winning novelist Marilynne Robinson makes the clearest connection between John Calvin’s own biblical and patristic heritage and the heritage he in turn left the modern world.
Author : Karl Barth
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802806963
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book Theology of John Calvin written by Karl Barth and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1995-11 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historically significant volume collects Karl Barth's lectures on John Calvin, delivered at the University of Göttingen in 1922. The book opens with an illuminating sketch of medieval theology, an appreciation of Luther's breakthrough, and a comparative study of the roles of Zwingli and Calvin. The main body of the work consists of an increasingly sympathetic, and at times amusing, account of Calvin's life up to his recall to Geneva. In the process, Barth examines and evaluates the early theological writings of Calvin, especially the first edition of the Institutes.
Author : R. Ward Holder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009081179
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Calvin and the Christian Tradition written by R. Ward Holder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Calvin lived in a divided world when past certainties were crumbling. Calvin claimed that his thought was completely based upon scripture, but he was mistaken. At several points in his thought and his ministry, he set his own foundations upon tradition. His efforts to make sense of his culture and its religious life mirror issues that modern Western cultures face, and that have contributed to our present situation. In this book, R. Ward Holder offers new insights into Calvin's successes and failures and suggests pathways for understanding some of the problems of contemporary Western culture such as the deep divergence about living in tradition, the modern capacity to agree on the foundations of thought, and even the roots of our deep political polarization. He traces Calvin's own critical engagement with the tradition that had formed him and analyzes the inherent divisions in modern heritage that affect our ability to agree, not only religiously or politically, but also about truth. An epilogue comparing biblical interpretation with Constitutional interpretation is illustrative of contemporary issues and demonstrates how historical understanding can offer solutions to tensions in modern culture.
