CalvinYale University Press, 2009 M07 21 - 432 páginas A revealing new portrait of John Calvin that captures his human complexity and the sixteenth-century world in which he fought his personal and theological battles 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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... views of Martin Luther took hold of this impressionable young man and changed him for ever. The rest of his life was a coming to terms with that conversion. But what made Calvin great? It may seem odd, but working on this biog- raphy ...
... views continues to be debatable, we are in no doubt about what Calvin believed. For our part, we will not have to discuss whether Calvin was a Protestant or Catholic. He was a pedagogue dedicated to clarity of thought and expression ...
... views , but that their central point of cohesion was the Bible . Only in the 1550s , with the emergence of churches , can one talk of French Protestantism . For the sake of simplicity , I have not used the term ' Huguenot . Finally , I ...
... views were at this point, and we do not know, the hostility of his teacher to the religious innovations of his age did not in any way diminish his respect for the man he would call 'the Prince of French lawyers'. Orléans offered Calvin ...
... views. There were no Protestant churches, so did Calvin continue to attend mass? He may well have practised a form of dissembling in which he continued to observe the outward rites of a church whose teachings he had already rejected – a ...