Calvin : a biography

Introduction - John Calvin, an unfinished portrait. Part 1 Youth of a reformer: the heavens at a birth, July 10, 1509; dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants; to be twenty-one in 1530; the most dreadful Popish mass - 1533-34; the lovers of Jesus Christ - 1535-36. Part 2 Organization and resistance: from Basel to Geneva - 1536-38; Geneva or Strasbourg? 1538-41; Geneva, a city of God? the middle years of the century; the sombre years - 1547-55; the trail of the heretics - Bolsec, Servetus, Castellio; to thee the glory. Part 3 Beliefs: Calvin the polemicist; Calvin the preacher; the institutes of the Christian religion; Calvin, French writer; conclusion - Saint Luther, Saint Calvin, Saint Jansenius.