Sober, strict, and scriptural: collective memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000
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...
Summary: | 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. This book examines how John Calvin a "" his person, character, and deeds a "" was remembered, commemorated, and memorialized in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries |
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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record |
Physical Description: | Online Ressource (xiii, 393 p.), ill. |
ISBN: | 904742770X |