Christ's churches purely reformed : a social history of Calvinism /
A synthetic history of Calvinism. It tells the story of the Reformed tradition from its birth in the cities of Switzerland to the unravelling of orthodoxy amid the new intellectual currents of the 17th century. As befits a pan-European movement, Philip Benedict's canvas stretches from the Briti...
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New Haven, Conn. ; London :
Yale University Press,
2002
New Haven, Conn. ; London : 2002 |
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Table of Contents:
- Zurich contra Wittenberg
- The second generation : Switzerland and Germany
- The second generation : Calvin and Geneva
- France : the construction and defense of a minority church
- Scotland : a revolutionary reformation
- The Netherlands : another revolutionary reformation
- The empire : further reformation by princely fiat
- England : the unstable settlement of a church "but halfly reformed"
- Eastern Europe : local reformations under noble protection
- Theological disputes in the age of orthodoxy
- Changing political circumstances on the continent
- British schisms
- The reformation of the ministry
- The exercise of discipline
- The practice of piety