John Calvin
Subtitle: a biography
By: by T.H.L. Parker.
Edition: [Rev. ed.].
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Louisville, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780664231811
Subjects: Calvin, Jean, -- 1509-1564
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Childhood and youth; title: Child of the church; title: Arts student; title: Training in philosophy; title: Orleans and Bourges; title: The study of civil law; title: Friends and relatives; title: Bourges and a new start; title: The first book; title: Fugitive from injustice; title: Christianae religionis institutio; title: Its character and purpose; title: Law, faith, and prayer; title: The sacraments; title: Liberty; title: Genevan trials; title: An exile from home; title: Sixteenth-century geneva; title: Church authority; title: Organization in theory and practice; title: The French minister in Strasbourg; title: Matters domestic and pastoral; title: The new institutio; title: The commentary on Romans; title: Geneva changes its mind; title: The Genevan Church settlement; title: The ordinances; title: The church at worship; title: Calvin the preacher; title: Opposition to a godly society; title: The opposition Musters; title: Calvin at home; title: The institutioagain and New Testament commentaries; title: The opposition grows; title: The battle over discipline; title: Defeat into security; title: The trial and death of Servetus; title: The fall of the Perrinists; title: The university of Geneva; title: Old Testament commentaries and the final institutio; title: Caring for the churches; title: The one body; title: Letters private and public; title: Outside Geneva; title: Christ is gain in dying; title: Arguments for re-dating.