Calvin, A Biography

Continuum International Publishing Group, May 22, 2003 - 394 pages

A major new authoritative and comprehensive biography, shedding new light on the life and personality of the great Reformer - and the milieu in which he lived and worked. Cottret's Calvin is not the ‘static' theologian of earlier biographies, but a man of enormous vigour, constantly on the move in his thinking as well as in his life.

Professor Cottret introduces the reader to the world into which Calvin was born, and follows him from childhood to humanistic and literary pursuits in Basel, to ministry in Geneva, to the halcyon Strasbourg years and finally back to Geneva. The vital issues of the day are encountered as it were through Calvin's eyes, as the author leads the reader through the dramatic upheavals of sixteenth-century Europe.

A classic biography which will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars for years to come.

Praise for Calvin:
'A tour de force. . . Cottret has avoided the trap of painting a character who would have had, from the beginning, all of the traits of his later years, and endeavours to show how Calvin became Calvin. . . Brilliant.'
--Le Monde
'This excellent book regards the French Reformer with new eyes. . . Cottret mixes seriousness and welcome humour. For the public interested in a history of Protestanism, this book is full of reflections of the spirit of the Reformation.'
--Les Livres du Mois

"Bernard Cottret is an accomplished and successful writer . . . He has an idiosyncratic style that mixes narrative and professional bon mots of a cold philosophical nature . . . Cottret is also the first of recent biographers [. . .] to make extensive use of Calvin's sermons, many of which languished unpublished until recently. Calvin had grave doubts about the publication of such works and thought them fit only for a local and transitory audience; but it is here, in this less guarded medium, that Calvin's skill as a teacher and expositor shines forth with greatest clarity."
--English Historical Review>

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Cottret (literature, Versailles-Saint-Quentin Univ.) has chronicled the life and thought of John Calvin with an acumen that should be emulated by future biographers. The reformer is shown to be a more ... Read full review

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July 10 1509	3

Dwarfs Perched on the Shoulders of Giants	25

To Be TwentyOne in 1530	53

153334	71

153536	89

ORGANIZATION AND RESISTANCE	105

153638	107

Geneva or Strasbourg? 153841	132

Bolsec Servetus Castellio	205

To Thee the Glory	234

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The Institutes of the Christian Religion	309

Calvin French Writer	326

The Youth of Calvin	348

Copyright

Geneva a City of God? The Middle Years of the Century	157

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Title	Calvin, A Biography
Author	Bernard Cottret
Edition	illustrated, reprint
Publisher	Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003
ISBN	0567089614, 9780567089618
Length	394 pages

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