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Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France, 1555-1563

By: Robert McCune Kingdon

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Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France, 1555-1563

By: Robert McCune Kingdon

Au temps des guerres de religion de nombreux pasteurs formes a Geneve prirent part aux conflits et tenterent d'amener la Fille ainee de l'Eglise a la foi reformee. Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France (1555-1563) met en evidence le role determinant que certains predicateurs jouerent dans cette periode de troubles, revelant l'imbrication, une fois encore, des pouvoirs religieux et politique. Cet essai ayant considerablement marque la pensee historique sur la Reforme, un tel classique se devait d'etre reimprime. Dans sa postface a la nouvelle edition, Robert Kingdon livre moult details sur la genese de l'ouvrage dont l'edition initiale remonte a la Guerre froide.

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Geneva and the Consolidation of the French Protestant Movement, 1564-1572 : a Contribution to the History of Congregationalism, Presbyterianism and Calvinist Resistance Theory

By: Robert M. Kingdon

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Geneva and the Consolidation of the French Protestant Movement, 1564-1572 : a Contribution to the History of Congregationalism, Presbyterianism and Calvinist Resistance Theory

By: Robert M. Kingdon

Front-matter : Table of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter I : The Geneva Company of Pastors : Internal Developments, 1564-1572; Chapter II : The Geneva Company of Pastors : Its Mission to France, 1563-1572; Chapter III : Arguments over French Reformed Church Organization; A. The Institutional Background; B. The Internal Attack : Jean Morély and his Treatise on Christian Discipline; C. The Internal Quarrel : 1. First Reactions to Morély’s Proposal; 2. Morély in the Ile-de-France; 3. The Official Reply to Morély; 4. Morély at the Court of Navarre; 5. Ramus Enters the Quarrel; 6. The St. Bartholomew’s Massacres End the Quarrel; 7. Epilogue; D. The External Attack : Charles du Moulin; Chapter IV : Geneva and the French Wars of Religion, 1563-1572; A. The Peace of Amboise : 1. Immédiate Protestant Reactions; 2. Continuing Rumors of Sedition; B. {p. 8} The Renewal of War : Geneva and the Conspiracy of Meaux; C. Geneva’s Support For War : 1. Diplomatic Background; 2. The Second War of Religion; 3. The Third War of Religion; D. The Return of Peace; Conclusion; Back-matter : Appendixes; Annotated Bibliography; Index

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Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva

Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage

By: Jr. Witte, John,John Witte,Robert M. Kingdon

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Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva

Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage

By: Jr. Witte, John,John Witte,Robert M. Kingdon

You would not expect this from his dour reputation, but John Calvin transformed the Western understanding of sex, marriage, and family life. In this fascinating, even sensational, volume John Witte and Robert Kingdon treat comprehensively the new theology and law of domestic life that Calvin and his fellow reformers established in sixteenth-century Geneva. Bringing to light and life hundreds of newly discovered cases and theological texts, Witte and Kingdon trace the subtle historical forms and norms of sex, marriage, and family life that still shape us today.

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Registers of the Consistory of Geneva in the Time of Calvin: 1542-1544

By: Eglise nationale protestante de Genève. Consistoire de Genève

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Registers of the Consistory of Geneva in the Time of Calvin: 1542-1544

By: Eglise nationale protestante de Genève. Consistoire de Genève

This critical edition of the Registers of the Consistory of Geneva in the time of Calvin reveals what life was like during the Protestant Reformation in a city where ecclesiastical discipline affected many. These valuable primary source documents- the great bulk of which have remained unknown to most modern researchers- are of capital importance for study of this seminal period in church history. Volume 1 records the activity of the Consistory between 1542 and 1544. Arbitration of disputes, surveillance of morals, repression of the vestiges of the Catholic cult, promotion of the Reformed mode of living, resolution of matrimonial cases- this is a general sketch of the Consistory's work during its earliest days. Rich in details pertaining to daily life and piety in Geneva, these noteworthy historical documents testify to the immense role played by the church in society at the beginning of the Reformation.

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0802846181

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Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism

By: Professor Robert E Stillman

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Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism

By: Professor Robert E Stillman

Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history. Robert E. Stillman explores this paradox in relation to Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy, the first Renaissance text to argue for the preeminence of poetry as an autonomous form of knowledge in the public domain. Offering a fresh interpretation of Sidney's celebration of fiction-making, Stillman locates the origins of his poetics inside a neglected historical community: the intellectual elite associated with Philip Melanchthon (leader of the German Reformation after Luther), the so-called Philippists. As a challenge to traditional Anglo-centric scholarship, his study demonstrates how Sidney's education by Continental Philippists enabled him to dignify fiction-making as a compelling form of public discourse-compelling because of its promotion of powerful new concepts about reading and writing, its ecumenical piety, and its political ambition to secure through natural law (from universal 'Ideas') freedom from the tyranny of confessional warfare. Intellectually ambitious and wide-ranging, this study draws together various elements of contemporary scholarship in literary, religious, and political history in order to afford a broader understanding of the Defence and the cultural context inside which Sidney produced both his poetry and his poetics.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409475026

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New Testament Scholarship: Praphrase on John

By: Desiderius Erasmus,Robert Dick Sider,Jane Ellen Phillips

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New Testament Scholarship: Praphrase on John

By: Desiderius Erasmus,Robert Dick Sider,Jane Ellen Phillips

Erasmus yearned to make the Bible an effective instrument in the reform of society, church, and the life of individuals in the turbulent world the sixteenth century. He therefore composed paraphrases in which the words of Holy Scripture provided the core of a text vastly expanded to embrace the reforming 'philosophy of Christ.' The Paraphrases were successful beyond expectation and were quickly translated from Latin into French, German, English, and other languages. This volume is the third Paraphrase to be published in the New Testament Scholarship series in the CWE. In it Erasmus explores questions that have always been central to Christian self-understanding. Why is the cross folly to the wise of this world? In the Paraphrase on John, Erasmus hints broadly that the cause of human blindness lies in the arrogance of intellectual pretensions, the love of vain-glory, the lust for possessions, the fear of losing the supports that secure a comfortable way of life. Perhaps nothing will please the reader more the portraits of the chief characters in John's Gospels. We enjoy the simplicity of the lowly woman at the well, we understand the complexity of the distinguished Nicodemus. Above all, we are captured by the portrait of Christ himself. Upon the stage Erasmus has here designed, Christ appears first in the humility of a lowly artisan from a despised country; only to the discerning does his glory flash forth from his mortality, a mortality vividly etched in the scene on the cross. But in the last pages of the Paraphrase on John, Erasmus sets before us in sharp dramatic contrast the resurrected Christ glorious with a radiant holiness. Like Augustine in the City of God, Erasmus attempts to define the relationship between the two worlds in which the Christian lives - the heavenly and the spiritual, and the earthly and physical. Volume 46 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series.

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0802058590

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Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva

By: Robert McCune Kingdon

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Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva

By: Robert McCune Kingdon

In Calvin's Geneva, the changes associated with the Reformation were particularly abrupt and far-reaching, in large part owing to John Calvin himself. Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva makes two major contributions to our understanding of this time. The first is to the history of divorce. The second is in illustrating the operations of the Consistory of Geneva--an institution designed to control in all its variety the behavior of the entire population--which was established at Calvin's insistence in 1541. This mandate came shortly after the city officially adopted Protestantism in 1536, a time when divorce became legally possible for the first time in centuries. Robert Kingdon illustrates the changes that accompanied the earliest Calvinist divorces by examining in depth a few of the most dramatic cases and showing how divorce affected real individuals. He considers first, and in the most detail, divorce for adultery, the best-known grounds for divorce and the best documented. He also covers the only other generally accepted grounds for these early divorces--desertion. The second contribution of the book, to show the work of the Consistory of Geneva, is a first step toward a fuller study of the institution. Kingdon has supervised the first accurate and complete transcription of the twenty-one volumes of registers of the Consistory and has made the first extended use of these materials, as well as other documents that have never before been so fully utilized.

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Harvard University Press

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067400521X

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The Reformation Era

By: Robert D. Linder

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The Reformation Era

By: Robert D. Linder

Although religious unrest had been brewing in Western Europe long before Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, historians view this event as the tipping point that shattered the unity of the Medieval Catholic civilization. Disillusioned by Church bureaucracy and awakened by the rise of Renaissance Humanism, Western Europe was primed for an alternative to the old order. Protestant reformers called for a return to scripture and a focus on individual faith, and the Catholic Church responded with a new focus on spirituality that culminated in the Council of Trent. In modern spiritual revivals, religious debates, and newer Church reforms, we can still see the legacy of the era Linder calls Midwife to the Modern World.

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0313088322

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Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

By: Robert Benedetto,Donald K. McKim

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Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

By: Robert Benedetto,Donald K. McKim

As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches contains information on the major personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches.

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0810870231

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Communities of Discourse

Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism

By: Robert Wuthnow

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Communities of Discourse

Ideology and Social Structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European Socialism

By: Robert Wuthnow

Sociologist Robert Wuthnow notes remarkable similarities in the social conditions surrounding three of the greatest challenges to the status quo in the development of modern society--the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the rise of Marxist socialism.

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Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva

By: Robert McCune Kingdon

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Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France (1555-1563). New edition / Foreword by Mack P. Holt / Postface by Robert M. Kingdon

By: Robert M. Kingdon,Mack P. Holt

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Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France (1555-1563). New edition / Foreword by Mack P. Holt / Postface by Robert M. Kingdon

By: Robert M. Kingdon,Mack P. Holt

Au temps des guerres de religion de nombreux pasteurs formés à Genève prirent part aux conflits et tentèrent d’amener la Fille aînée de l’Eglise à la foi réformée. Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France (1555-1563) met en évidence le rôle déterminant que certains prédicateurs jouèrent dans cette période de troubles, révélant l’imbrication, une fois encore, des pouvoirs religieux et politique. Cet essai ayant considérablement marqué la pensée historique sur la Réforme, un tel classique se devait d’être réimprimé. Dans sa postface à la nouvelle édition, Robert Kingdon livre moult détails sur la genèse de l’ouvrage dont l’édition initiale remonte à la Guerre froide.

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Reforming Geneva

Discipline, Faith and Anger in Calvin's Geneva

By: Robert McCune Kingdon

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Reforming Geneva

Discipline, Faith and Anger in Calvin's Geneva

By: Robert McCune Kingdon

The Calvinist Reformation is characterized above all by a focus on church discipline enforced by church courts known as consistories. The Geneva consistory served as the model and mother institution throughout the Calvinist world. In this book, Robert M. Kingdon surveys the theoretical underpinnings of the Calvinist emphasis on discipline and how theory was put into practice by John Calvin in Reformation Geneva. Professor Kingdon looks in turn at how the Geneva consistory and the pastors and councilors who staffed it reformed religious practice, religious education and marriage practices. Finally, Robert M. Kingdon uses the emotion of hatred as a lens to examine how Calvin and his colleagues attempted to reform emotions. He delves into the way in which Calvin and his colleagues employed the consistory to attenuate interpersonal hatred, while employing propaganda to whip up interconfessional hatred. Robert M. Kingdon was America's pre-eminent scholar of the Calvinist Reformation. Thomas A. Lambert wrote his doctoral thesis on the Genevan Reformation under Professor Kingdon and has since been his collaborator on a series of critical editions of the Registers of the Geneva Consistory, also published by Droz. Thomas A. Lambert helped Robert Kingdon finish this long-planned work, based on his 1999 Stone Lectures at the Princeton Theological Seminary. A scholar to the end, Kingdon was able to read and approve all substantive changes to this work just three days before his passing in December 2010. This final work from Professor Kingdon deserves a place on the shelf of all Reformation scholars.

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The Writings of Robert Harrison and Robert Browne

By: Robert Harrison

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The Writings of Robert Harrison and Robert Browne

By: Robert Harrison

Robert Harrison and Robert Browne were the initiators of the principles of English Separatism and Congregationalism. The ideas of these two men profoundly influenced the Puritan movement both of England and America.

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0415319900

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Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva

Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage

By: Jr. Witte, John,John Witte,Robert M. Kingdon

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Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva

Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage

By: Jr. Witte, John,John Witte,Robert M. Kingdon

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Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France, 1555-1563

Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France, 1555-1563

Geneva and the Consolidation of the French Protestant Movement, 1564-1572 : a Contribution to the History of Congregationalism, Presbyterianism and Calvinist Resistance Theory

Geneva and the Consolidation of the French Protestant Movement, 1564-1572 : a Contribution to the History of Congregationalism, Presbyterianism and Calvinist Resistance Theory

Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva

Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva

Registers of the Consistory of Geneva in the Time of Calvin: 1542-1544

Registers of the Consistory of Geneva in the Time of Calvin: 1542-1544

Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism

Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism

New Testament Scholarship: Praphrase on John

New Testament Scholarship: Praphrase on John

Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva

Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva

The Reformation Era

The Reformation Era

Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

Communities of Discourse

Communities of Discourse

Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva

Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva

Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France (1555-1563). New edition / Foreword by Mack P. Holt / Postface by Robert M. Kingdon

Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France (1555-1563). New edition / Foreword by Mack P. Holt / Postface by Robert M. Kingdon

Reforming Geneva

Reforming Geneva

The Writings of Robert Harrison and Robert Browne

The Writings of Robert Harrison and Robert Browne

Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva

Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva

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