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scruples over oaths and confessions in the era of Calvin and his contemporaries
"We see Calvin most clearly - as a person and as a theologian - against the backdrop of his late medieval context. Older portrayals of Calvin as a father of modern doctrinal systems - popularized in early nineteenth- and twentieth-century accounts of the reformer's life and thought - have been soundly rebuffed, and for good reason. Calvin was, as a point of fact, thoroughly unaware of certain dogmatic patterns that we now recognize as being "modern." He was no more the father of modern critical exegesis than he was the original visionary of modern liberal democratic societies. That is to say, Calvin could not have considered himself a forerunner of something that lay entirely outside his historical purview. Likewise, the young Calvin was, in most respects, a man of his times. And his times were driven by the effort to promulgate and practice the authoritative teachings of the medieval Christian Church. Moreover, Calvin did not utterly disown the intellectual inheritance of his youth following his conversion to the evangelical religion in the early 1530s. Later in life, as a seasoned reformer of the church, Calvin continued to apply with great fervency many of the legal principles and theological methods he had acquired at an early age while studying in Paris, Orléans, and Bourges, albeit with an ever-critical eye toward the need for church reform"--
Cover -- Series -- Consciences and the Reformation -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Translation and Texts -- Introduction -- Section I: Calvin and the Reformers' Inherited Legal Tradition -- 1. Before Calvin: Oaths, Religious Coercion, and the Freedom of Conscience from the Medieval Church to the Reformation -- Section II: Answering Conscientious Objectors: Calvin and the Reformers against Radical Dissent and Religious Compromise -- 2. Conscience, Confession, and the Consolidation of Early Public Reform in Strasbourg, 1530-​1535 -- 3. "Vera pietas veram confessionem parit": Confession, Conscience, and Charity in the Anti-​Nicodemism of Calvin and the Reformers -- 4. Confession, Conscience, and Christian Freedom in the Later Anti-​Nicodemite Writings of Calvin and the Reformers, 1540-​1562 -- Section III: Oaths, Confessional Subscription, and the Binding of the Conscience in Reformation Geneva -- 5. Citizen's Oath and Confession of Faith in Reformation Geneva, 1536-​1538: Necessary, Indifferent, or a Tertium Quid? -- 6. "Make Them Afraid of Bearing False Witness": Oaths, Conscience, and Discipline in the Registers of the Genevan Consistory, 1541-​1564 -- 7. After Calvin: Oaths, Subscription, Conscience, and Compromise in the Genevan Academy, 1559-​1612 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023]