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ISBN 0567089614
Size = 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
This biography sheds new light on the life and personality of the great Reformer - and the milieu in which he lived and worked. Cottret's Cal vin 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 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 16th-century Europe.
CONTENTS:
I. Youth of a Reformer
1. The Heavens at a Birth: July 10, 1509
2. Dwarves Perched on the Shoulders of Giants
3. To be 21 in 1530
4. The Most Dreadful Popish Mass: 1533-34
5. The Lovers of Jesus Christ: 1535-36
II. Organisation and Resistance
6. From Basel to Geneva: 1536-38
7. Geneva to Strasbourg? 1538-41
8. Geneva, a City of God? The Middle Years of the Century
9. The Sombre Years: 1547-55
10. The Trail of the Heretics: Bolsec, Servetus, Castellio
11. To Thee the Glory
III. Beliefs
12. Calvin the Polemicist
13. Calvin the Preacher
14. The Institutes of the Christian Religion
15. Calvin, French Writer
Conclusion: Saint Luther, Saint Calvin, Saint Jansenius
Appendixes
1. The Youth of Calvin
2. The University System in France
3. The Small council
4. Chronology of the Establishment of Calvinism in France
5. Chronology of Royal Repression
6. Decrees of the Sorbonne, 1543
7. List of Sermons
Select Bibliography
Index
376 pages. Softcover. Ex-Library, very much cleaner & better than usual, having been borrowed only once.
Weight = 800 g
BOOK CONDITION = VERY GOOD
NEW: This book has been designated by the seller as brand new.
FINE: No defects, little usage. Older books may show minor flaws.
VERY GOOD: Shows some signs of wear and is no longer fresh. Attractive.
GOOD: Average used book with all pages present. Possible loose bindings, highlighting, cocked spine or torn dust jackets.
FAIR: Obviously well-worn, but no text pages missing. May be without endpapers or title page. Markings do not interfere with readability.
POOR: All text is legible but may be soiled and have binding defects. Reading copies and binding copies fall into this category.
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