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A Life of John Calvin

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'A most welcome study filling a real need for a scholarly biography that is historically sensitive and theologically well-informed."
--Religious Studies Review

'Not since Wendel's Calvin has one volume given as much breath and depth to the life and thought of Calvin as this one... A splendid resource for both novices and Calvin scholars. McGrath's work will endure as a balanced, sensitive, historical-theological treatment.'
--Sixteenth Century Journal

'A full range of Calvin students and scholars will be grateful for this book. Wide in scope, detailed in coverage, yet clear in focus, McGrath's work will find a secure niche for many years to come.
--Christianity Today

History occasionally produces figures whose influence on their own and successive generations is immense. Marx, Freud and Lenin had such an influence, and so, Alister McGrath argues, does John Calvin. This book provides a fresh and lucid exploration of Calvin's life and influence, his theology and his political thought, and his determining of the course of European history. It traces Calvin's remarkable impact on the development of modern western attitudes to work, wealth, civil rights, capitalism and the natural sciences.

Published to wide critical acclaim in hardback and now available in paperback this ground-breaking study of Calvin will be welcomed by all concerned with an understanding of the shaping of modern western culture.

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200

Publisher

Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell Publishing., 1990

Collation

Softcover; 332 hlm.; 15 x 22.8 cm

Language

English

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9780631189473

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200

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Religion
Religion & Spirituality
Nonfiction
Biography & Memoir
History
General Nonfiction

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