Title: Calvin and the Anabaptist Radicals /
Authors: Balke, Willem.
Date: 1981
Publisher: Eerdmans,
Physical description: xi, 338 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
LC class: B
Contents: Introduction -- The Reformation and the radicals -- Scholarship on Calvin and the Anabaptists -- Method -- Part one: Historical study -- 1. Early contacts with the Anabaptists -- The religious currents in France -- Initial Anabaptist contacts -- Calvin's commentary on Seneca's De Clementia -- Psychopannychia -- The bibliographic problem -- The first preface, Orleans 1534 -- The second preface, Basel 1536 -- The theological problems -- A letter to Bucer in 1534 -- The stay at Basel -- Summary -- 2. The institutes of 1536 -- The letter to King Francis I -- The polemic in the Institutes of 1536 -- Munster -- The church -- The judgment of love -- No rigorism -- The sacraments -- Holy baptism -- The Lord's Supper -- Office and liturgy -- The oath -- The attitude toward the government -- Pacifism -- Taxation and jurisdiction -- Lawful resistance to tyranny -- Summary -- 3. Geneva 1536-1538 -- The situation in Geneva -- Contacts with Anabaptists -- Conflict -- Summary --^ 4. The institutes of 1539 -- The polemic in the institutes of 1539 -- Word and Spirit -- The relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament -- Infant baptism -- The oath -- The Sabbath -- Predestination -- Universalism and Chiliasm -- The visible church -- Perfectionism -- Discipline -- Summary -- 5. Strabsourg, 1538-1541 -- The situation in Strasbourg -- Contacts with Anabaptists -- Idelette de Bure -- Reply to Sadoleto -- Calvin and Paul Volz -- Calvin and the Bohemian Brethren -- Calvin and Bucer -- Conclusion -- 6. The institutes of 1543 -- The polemic in the Institutes of 1543 -- The church visible -- Office -- Discipline -- Summary -- 7. Geneva, 1541-1564 -- Return to Geneva -- An Anabaptist movement in Neuchatel -- Calvin as polemicist -- Calvin and the "Confessio Schlattensis" -- Lesser contacts after 1544 -- Calvin and Menno -- Summary -- 8. The institutes of 1559 -- The polemic in the Institutes of 1559 -- Interlude -- Part Two: Systematic study --^ 9. The holiness and unity of the church -- Holy baptism -- Discipline -- Separatism -- Office -- Perfectionism -- 10. Church and state -- The oath -- The government -- Critique of society -- Communism -- Separation from the world -- Anarchism -- Pacifism -- Revolution and resistance to tyranny -- Chiliasm -- 11. Other controversies in dogmatics -- The incarnation -- The doctrine of soul sleep -- 12. Hermeneutics -- The relationship between the Old and the New Testaments -- The sermon on the mount -- Word and Spirit -- Epilogue.
Notes: Translation of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Utrecht, 1973. Includes index.