Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016. — 168 p. — (Very Short Introductions). In this Very Short Introduction, Jon Balserak explores major ideas associated with the Calvinist system of thought. Beginning during the Protestant Reformation in cities like Zurich, Geneva, and Basel, Calvinism - also known as Reformed Theology - spread rapidly throughout Europe...
Springer, 2006. — 310 p. — (Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms 3). This study examines Jean Calvin’s attempt to nurture a godly society and further his vision of ecclesiastical and societal reform by means of sound pedagogy and persuasive rhetoric. The focus of this work is Calvin’s interpretation of the latter Pentateuch, and particularly the book of Deuteronomy. The...
Albany, OR: Books For The Ages, 1998. (In file 437 p.). This set is originally a 8 volume work. The renovation of the individual, of the church, and of the human race, is the theme. If the Holy Ghost kindles the lamp of truth in man, it is (according to Calvin) to the end that the entire man should be transformed. In the Kingdom of Christ, he says, it is only the new man that...
Albany, OR: Books For The Ages, 1998. (The file contains 474 p.). This set is originally a 8 volume work. The renovation of the individual, of the church, and of the human race, is the theme. If the Holy Ghost kindles the lamp of truth in man, it is (according to Calvin) to the end that the entire man should be transformed. In the Kingdom of Christ, he says, it is only the new...
Albany, OR: Books For The Ages, 1998. (In file 422 p.). This set is originally a 8 volume work. The renovation of the individual, of the church, and of the human race, is the theme. If the Holy Ghost kindles the lamp of truth in man, it is (according to Calvin) to the end that the entire man should be transformed. In the Kingdom of Christ, he says, it is only the new man that...
Albany, OR: Books For The Ages, 1998. (The file contains 478 p.). This set is originally a 8 volume work. The renovation of the individual, of the church, and of the human race, is the theme. If the Holy Ghost kindles the lamp of truth in man, it is (according to Calvin) to the end that the entire man should be transformed. In the Kingdom of Christ, he says, it is only the new...
Albany, OR: Books For The Ages, 1998. (In file 423 p.). This set is originally a 8 volume work. The renovation of the individual, of the church, and of the human race, is the theme. If the Holy Ghost kindles the lamp of truth in man, it is (according to Calvin) to the end that the entire man should be transformed. In the Kingdom of Christ, he says, it is only the new man that...
Albany, OR: Books For The Ages, 1998. (The file contains 468 p.). This set is originally a 8 volume work. The renovation of the individual, of the church, and of the human race, is the theme. If the Holy Ghost kindles the lamp of truth in man, it is (according to Calvin) to the end that the entire man should be transformed. In the Kingdom of Christ, he says, it is only the new...
Albany, OR: Books For The Ages, 1998. (In file 519 p.). This set contains originally 8 volume work. The renovation of the individual, of the church, and of the human race, is the theme. If the Holy Ghost kindles the lamp of truth in man, it is (according to Calvin) to the end that the entire man should be transformed. In the Kingdom of Christ, he says, it is only the new man...
Albany, OR: Books For The Ages, 1998. (The file contains 320 p.). This set is originally a 8 volume work. The renovation of the individual, of the church, and of the human race, is the theme. If the Holy Ghost kindles the lamp of truth in man, it is (according to Calvin) to the end that the entire man should be transformed. In the Kingdom of Christ, he says, it is only the new...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 366 p. This is a major study of the theological thought of John Calvin, which examines his central theological ideas through a philosophical lens, looking at issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics. The study, the first of its kind, is concerned with how Calvin actually uses philosophical ideas in his work as a theologian and biblical...
Berlin: Springer, 2001. — 230 p. — ISBN10: 0792367871; ISBN13: 978-0792367871. This book provides a uniquely detailed case study of the origins of millenarianism within the vast opera of one of its earliest and most influential Calvinist exponents: the Herborn encyclopedist Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638). The young Alsted, it emerges, looked forward not to the millennium of...
Springer Netherlands, 2000. — 230 p. — (International Archives of the History of Ideas 172). This book provides a uniquely detailed case study of the origins of millenarianism within the vast opera of one of its earliest and most influential Calvinist exponents: the Herborn encyclopedist Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638). The young Alsted, it emerges, looked forward not to the...
Princeton University Press, 2015 - 421 p. Calvin's eucharistic doctrine has been approached in the past from the standpoint of his polemic with the Lutherans and the Zwinglians, but Father McDonnell believes that Calvin's primary position was determined by his rejection of Roman Catholicism. The author, therefore, explores Calvin's eucharistic doctrine through a comprehensive...
Lake Mary, FL: Reformation Trust Publishing, 2008. — 242 p. — ISBN10: 1567691064; ISBN13: 978-1567691061. Meet the Man Behind the Myths John Calvin's name evokes powerful images, most of them negative. In the minds of many, he is perceived as an ivory-tower theologian who was harsh and unreasonable, the driving force behind a dangerous theological system. In this volume, Burk...
Scarecrow Press, 2011. — 290 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series). — ISBN10: 0810872242. — ISBN13: 978-0810872240. Calvinism is named after 16th century Reformer, John Calvin whose overall theology is contained in his Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559). Calvin's theology and ecclesiology provided the foundation upon which the...
Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008. — 64 p. — ISBN10: 1433501821; ISBN13: 978-1433501821. John Piper fires readers' passion for the centrality and supremacy of God by unfolding Calvin's exemplary zeal for the glory of God. God rests all too lightly on the church's mind in our time. Consequently, the self-saturation of his people has made God and his glory auxiliary, and his majesty...
Pretoria: Calvyn Jubileum Boekefonds, 1941. — 206 p. Stoker H. G. The struggle of regimes (in Afrikaans) Hendrik Gerhardus Stoker (1899 – 1993), born in Johannesburg, South Africa, was a leading Calvinist philosopher who taught at Potchefstroom (PU). He studied at PU and the University of Cologne, and he completed his doctoral dissertation on "Nature and the forms of...
Springer, 2005. - 297 p. - (Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms 4). Calvinism's First Battleground sheds new light on the origin of Calvinism and the Reformed faith through a detailed examination of the Reformation in the Pays de Vaud. A specifically Calvinist identity and theology emerged out of two key conflicts in the region: first, the fight to turn away from Catholic...
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