Calvin's tormentors : understanding the conflicts that shaped the reformer /
This book offers a unique approach to Calvin by introducing the individuals and groups who, through their opposition to Calvin's theology and politics, helped shape the Reformer, his theology and his historical and religious legacy. Respected church historian Gary Jenkins shows how Calvin had t...
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Grand Rapids, Michigan :
Baker Academic,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Louis du Tillet and Calvin the Nicodemite: the fitful separation from the whore of Babylon's church
- Pierre Caroli and Calvin: Arianism, Sabellianism, and the heretical Farellistae
- Sadoleto: the Erasmian from Rome
- Michael Servetus: the primus adversarius
- Sebastian Castellio: colaboring admirer to belligerent vilifier
- Calvin and the Enfants de Genève: flatulence in a purely Reformed church
- François Baudouin: an odyssey of werewolves and brothel keepers
- Jerome Bolsec: no insult or vicious defamation good enough
- Joachim Westphal: Calvin the reluctant Zuricher
- The radicals: Italia as more trouble than Iberia. Matteo Gribaldi: the origin of later radicalism ; Francisco Stancaro: turning Calvin into a tritheist ; Giorgio Biandrata: the tritheist apostle to the Poles (and Valentine Gentili, his Silas ; Laelius and Faustus Soccinii: Calvin's thought fermenting.