Calvin and His Influence, 1509-2009

Calvin and His Influence, 1509-2009
ISBN-10
0199876983
ISBN-13
9780199876983
Category
Religion
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
2011-08-31
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
Irena Backus, Philip Benedict

Description

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 how much validity the classic interpretations that have linked his legacy to fundamental features of modernity such as democracy, capitalism, or science still retain.

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