Predestination and the Ethos of Disinheritance in Sixteenth-Century Calvinist Theater

This paper, by using several polemical plays written by Calvinist authors in the middle decades of the sixteenth century, seeks to examine how the doctrine of predestination was presented to and understood by the Calvinist faithful in France and Switzerland. Calvinist playwrights consistently used O...

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Main Author: Smail, Daniel Lord (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 1992
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1992, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 303-323
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