This volume collects papers initially written as the plenary addresses for the largest international scholarly conference held in connection with the 500th anniversary of Calvin's birth, organized in Geneva by the Institute of Reformation History. The organizers chose as theme for the conference ''Calvin and His Influence 1509-2009,'' hoping to stimulate reflection about what Calvin's ideas and example have meant across the five centuries since his lifetime, as well as about howmuch validity the classic interpretations that have linked his legacy to fundamental features of modernity such as democracy, capitalism, or science still retain. The year 2009 marked Calvin's 500th birthday. This volume collects papers initially written as the plenary addresses for the largest international scholarly conference held in connection with this anniversary, organized in Geneva by the Institute of Reformation History. The organizers chose as theme forthe conference ''Calvin and His Influence 1509-2009,'' hoping to stimulate reflection about what Calvin's ideas and example have meant across the five centuries since his lifetime,as well as about how much validity the classic interpretations that have linked his legacy to fundamental features of modernity such as democracy, capitalism, or science still retain. In brief, the story that emerges from the book isas follows: In the generations immediately after Calvin's death, hebecame an authority whose writings were widely cited by leading ''Calvinist''theologians, but he was in fact just one of several Reformed theologians of his generation who were much appreciated by these theologians. In the eighteenth century, his writings began to be far less frequently cited. Even in Reformed circles what was now most frequently recalled was his action during the Servetus affair, so that he now started to be widely criticized in those quarters of the Reformed tradition thatwere now attached to the idea of toleration or the ideal of a free church. Inthe nineteenth century, his theology was recovered again in a variety of different contexts, while scholars established the monument to his life and work that was the Opera Calvini and undertook major studies of his life andtimes. Church movements now claimed the label ''Calvinist'' for themselves with increasing insistence and pride. (The term had largely been a derogatory label in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.) The movements that identifiedthemselves as Calvinist or were identified as such by contemporaries nonetheless varied considerably in the manner in which they drew upon and understood Calvin's thought. Calvin and His Influence should become the starting point forfurther scholarlyreflection about the history of Calvinism, from its origin to the present. IntroductionIrena Backus and Philip BenedictChapter One: Calvin: Fifth Latin Doctor of the Church?Diarmaid MacCullochChapter Two: The Ideal of Aristocratia Politiae Vicina in the Calvinist Political TraditionHarro HpflChapter Three: Calvin the WorkaholicMax EngammareChapter Four: Calvin's Self-Awareness as AuthorOlivier MilletChapter Five: Calvin's Church in Geneva: Constructed or Gathered? Local or Foreign? French or Swiss?William NaphyChapter Six: Calvin, the Swiss Reformed Churches, and the European ReformationEmidio CampiChapter Seven: Calvin 1509-2009Herman SelderhuisChapter Eight: Calvinism as an Actor in the Early Modern State System around 1600: Struggle For Alliances; Patterns of Eschatological Interpretation; Symbolic RepresentationHeinz SchillingChapter Nine: Reception and Response: Referencing and Understanding Calvin in Seventeenth-Century CalvinismRichard MullerChapter Ten: The Dutch Enlightenment and the Distant CalvinErnestine van der WallChapter Eleven: Lost, then Found: Calvin in French Protestantism, 1830-1940Andr EncrevChapter Twelve: Calvin in the Plural: The Diversity of Modern Interpretations of Calvinism, especially in Germany and the English-Speaking WorldFriedrich W. GrafChapter Thirteen: Calvin, Modern Calvinism and Civil Society:The Appropriation of a Heritage, with Particular Reference to the Low CountriesCornelis van der KooiChapter Fourteen: Calvin and British Evangelicalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesDavid BebbingtonChapter Fifteen: Calvin(ism) and Apartheid in South Africa in the Twentieth Century: The Making and Unmaking of a Racial IdeologyJohn W. de GruchyIndex
- ISBN: 978-0-19-975185-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha Publicación: 29/09/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés