Sober, strict, and scriptural collective memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000 /

Sober, strict, and scriptural collective memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000 / [electronic resource] : edited by Johan de Niet, Herman Paul and Bart Wallet. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009. - xiii, 393 p. : ill. - Brill's series in church history, v. 38 1572-4107 ; Religious history and culture series ; v. 2 . - Brill's series in church history ; v. 38. Brill's series in church history. Religious history and culture series ; v. 2. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Calvin, history, and memory / Herman Paul and Bart Wallet -- Calvin's image in Catholic France during the nineteenth century / Michele Sacquin -- French Protestants and the legacy of John Calvin: reformer and legislator / Patrick Cabanel -- Issus de Calvin: collective memories of John Calvin in Dutch neo-calvinism / Herman Paul and Johan de Niet -- Calvin's truth and Hungarian religion: remembering a reformer / Botond Gaal -- Calvin in Germany: a marginalized memory / Stefan Laube -- Servetus vs. Calvin: a battle of monuments during the secularization of the French Third Republic / Valentine Zuber -- Calvin in missionary memory and Chinese Protestant identity / Jonathan Seitz -- Calvin and anti-apartheid memory in the Dutch Reformed family of churches in South Africa / Robert Vosloo -- Calvin: a negative boundary marker in American Lutheran self-identity, 1871-1934 / R. Scott Clark -- The Republican reformer: John Calvin and the American calvinists, 1830-1910 / Bryan Bademan -- The image of Calvin within Mormonism / Stephen S. Francis -- Shadow on the Alps: John Calvin and English travellers in Geneva / James Rigney -- The French Barber: Calvin as a source of burlesque in Mark Twain / Joe B. Fulton -- The death of Adam, the resurrection of Calvin: Marilynne Robinson's alternative to an American / Thomas J. Davis.


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Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.


Memory--Religious aspects--Christianity.


Electronic books.

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