Sober, Strict, and Scriptural: Collective Memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000
This book examines how John Calvin - his person, character, and deeds - was remembered, commemorated, and memorialized in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
| Summary: | This book examines how John Calvin - his person, character, and deeds - was remembered, commemorated, and memorialized in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Calvin, History, and Memory --- Herman Paul and Bart Wallet -- Chapter One Calvin's Image in Catholic France during the Nineteenth Century --- Michèle Sacquin -- Chapter Two French Protestants and the Legacy of John Calvin: Reformer and Legislator --- Patrick Cabanel -- Chapter Three Issus de Calvin: Collective Memories of John Calvin in Dutch Neo-Calvinism --- Herman Paul and Johan de Niet -- Chapter Four "Calvin's Truth" and "Hungarian Religion": Remembering a Reformer --- Botond Gaál -- Chapter Five Calvin in Germany: A Marginalized Memory --- Stefan Laube -- Chapter Six Servetus vs. Calvin: A Battle of Monuments During the Secularization of the French Third Republic --- Valentine Zuber -- Chapter Seven Calvin in Missionary Memory and Chinese Protestant Identity --- Jonathan Seitz -- Chapter Eight Calvin and Anti-Apartheid Memory in the Dutch Reformed Family of Churches in South Africa --- Robert Vosloo -- Chapter Nine Calvin: A Negative Boundary Marker in American Lutheran Self-Identity, 1871-1934 --- R. Scott Clark -- Chapter Ten "The Republican Reformer": John Calvin and the American Calvinists, 1830-1910 --- R. Bryan Bademan -- Chapter Eleven The Image of Calvin within Mormonism --- Stephen S. Francis -- Chapter Twelve Shadow on the Alps: John Calvin and English Travellers in Geneva --- James Rigney -- Chapter Thirteen "The French Barber": Calvin as a Source of Burlesque in Mark Twain --- Joe B. Fulton -- Chapter Fourteen The Death of Adam, the Resurrection of Calvin: Marilynne Robinson's Alternative to an American Ideograph --- Thomas J. Davis -- Index of Persons. |
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| ISBN: | 904742770X |