John Calvin : a biography /
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John Calvin : a biography /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parker, T. H. L. (Thomas Henry Louis)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, 2007.
Edition:[Rev. ed.].
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Table of Contents:
  • Childhood and youth. Child of the church ; Arts student ; Training in philosophy
  • Orléans and Bourges. The study of civil law ; Friends and relatives ; Bourges and a new start ; The first book ; Fugitive from injustice
  • Christianae religionis institutio. Its character and purpose ; Law, faith, and prayer ; The sacraments ; Liberty
  • Genevan trials. An exile from home ; Sixteenth-century Geneva ; Church authority ; Organization in theory and practice
  • The French minister in Strasbourg. Matters domestic and pastoral ; The new Institutio ; The commentary on Romans ; Geneva changes its mind
  • The Genevan Church settlement. The Ordinances ; The church at worship ; Calvin the preacher
  • Opposition to a godly society. The opposition musters ; Calvin at home ; The Institutio again and New Testament commentaries ; The opposition grows ; The battle over discipline
  • Defeat into security. The trial and death of Servetus ; The fall of the Perrinists ; The university of Geneva ; Old Testament commentaries and the final Institutio
  • Caring for the churches. The one body ; Letters private and public ; Outside Geneva
  • Christ is gain in dying.́