John Calvin, Paperback by Parker, T. H. L., Like New Used, Free shipping in t...
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John Calvin, Paperback by Parker, T. H. L., Like New Used, Free shipping in t.... John Calvin, the French Protestant theologian, had planned a life of quiet, scholarly study. But while travelling to Strasbourg in 1536, a local war forced him to make a detour through Geneva. Here he stayed, apart from a short period of exile, until the end of his life. John Calvin, Paperback by Parker, T. H. L., ISBN 0745952283, ISBN-13 9780745952284, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US John Calvin, the French Protestant theologian, had planned a life of quiet, scholarly study. But while travelling to Strasbourg in 1536, a local war forced him to make a detour through Geneva. Here he stayed, apart from a short period of exile, until the end of his life. His time in Geneva was marked by long, bitter struggles over the independence of the Church from the State and the rules Calvin tried to impose on Geneva as as a whole. Calvin's reputation as a controversialist is strong even today. In this major biography, he is seen against the background of the turbulent times in which he lived. By putting Calvin in his context, th brings to life the quiet, timid scholar whose ideas took Europe by storm.
