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John Calvin

A Sixteenth-century Portrait

By: William James Bouwsma

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John Calvin

A Sixteenth-century Portrait

By: William James Bouwsma

Traces the life of the French-born theologian, describes the background of his times, and assesses his influence on the modern world

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195059514

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9780195059519

Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty

Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter Reformation

By: William J. Bouwsma

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Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty

Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter Reformation

By: William J. Bouwsma

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

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710

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Univ of California Press

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0520329236

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9780520329232

A Usable Past

Essays in European Cultural History

By: William J. Bouwsma

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A Usable Past

Essays in European Cultural History

By: William J. Bouwsma

The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, touching on such topics as political thought and historiography, metaphysical and practical conceptions of order, the relevance of Renaissance humanism to Protestant thought, the secularization of European culture, the contributions of particular professional groups to European civilization, and the teaching of history. The essays in A Usable Past are unified by a set of common concerns. William Bouwsma has always resisted the pretensions to science that have shaped much recent historical scholarship and made the work of historians increasingly specialized and inaccessible to lay readers. Following Friedrich Nietzsche, he argues that since history is a kind of public utility, historical research should contribute to the self-understanding of society.

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Univ of California Press

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0520910141

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9780520910140

John Calvin

A Sixteenth-Century Portrait

By: William J. Bouwsma

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John Calvin

A Sixteenth-Century Portrait

By: William J. Bouwsma

Historians have credited--or blamed--Calvinism for many developments in the modern world, including capitalism, modern science, secularization, democracy, individualism, and unitarianism. These same historians, however, have largely ignored John Calvin the man. When people consider him at all, they tend to view him as little more than the joyless tyrant of Geneva who created an abstract theology as forbidding as himself. This volume, written by the eminent historian William J. Bouwsma, who has devoted his career to exploring the larger patterns of early modern European history, seeks to redress these common misconceptions of Calvin by placing him back in the proper historical context of his time. Eloquently depicting Calvin's life as a French exile, a humanist in the tradition of Erasmus, and a man unusually sensitive to the complexities and contradictions of later Renaissance culture, Bouwsma reveals a surprisingly human, plausible, ecumenical, and often sympathetic Calvin. John Calvin offers a brilliant reassessment not only of Calvin but also of the Reformation and its relationship to the movements of the Renaissance.

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324

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Oxford University Press

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019976297X

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9780199762972

Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms

A Response to the Challenge of Skepticism

By: William J. Wright

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Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms

A Response to the Challenge of Skepticism

By: William J. Wright

A leading Reformation scholar historically reassesses the original breadth of Luther's theology of the two kingdoms and the cultural contexts from which it emerged.

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208

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Baker Academic

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0801038847

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9780801038846

The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640

By: William James Bouwsma

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The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640

By: William James Bouwsma

Historians have conventionally viewed intellectual and artistic achievement as a seamless progression in a single direction, with the Renaissance, as identified by Jacob Burckhardt, as the root and foundation of modern culture. But in this brilliant new analysis William Bouwsma rethinks the accepted view, arguing that while the Renaissance had a beginning and, unquestionably, a climax, it also had an ending. Examining the careers of some of the greatest figures of the age--Montaigne, Galileo, Jonson, Descartes, Hooker, Shakespeare, and Cervantes among many others--Bouwsma perceives in their work a growing sense of doubt and anxiety about the modern world. He considers first those features of modern European culture generally associated with the traditional Renaissance, features which reached their climax in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. But even as the movements of the Renaissance gathered strength, simultaneous impulses operated in a contrary direction. Bouwsma identifies a growing concern with personal identity, shifts in the interests of major thinkers, a decline in confidence about the future, and a heightening of anxiety. Exploring the fluctuating and sometimes contradictory atmosphere in which Renaissance artists and thinkers operated, Bouwsma shows how the very liberation from old boundaries and modes of expression that characterized the Renaissance became itself increasingly stifling and destructive. By drawing attention to the waning of the Renaissance culture of freedom and creativity, Bouwsma offers a wholly new and intriguing interpretation of the place of the European Renaissance in modern culture.

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Yale University Press

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0300097174

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9780300097177

John Calvin

A Sixteenth-Century Portrait

By: William J. Bouwsma

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A Sixteenth-Century Portrait

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Oxford University Press

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Die Erfahrung der Inflation im internationalen Zusammenhang und Vergleich

By: William James Bouwsma

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Die Erfahrung der Inflation im internationalen Zusammenhang und Vergleich

By: William James Bouwsma

Conference report on the history of inflation and economic reconstruction in Europe, 1914-1924 - concentrates on events in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, UK and the role of USA; includes chapters on stabilization processes, fiscal policies, monetary policies and income distribution; examines the economic role of banks and of trade; analyzes economic recession and social conflicts related to strikes, lockouts and hours of work. Graphs, references, statistical tables. Conference held in Berkeley 1982 Jul 26 to Aug 6.

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Walter de Gruyter

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311009679X

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9783110096798

The Domestication of Transcendence

How Modern Thinking about God Went Wrong

By: William Carl Placher

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The Domestication of Transcendence

How Modern Thinking about God Went Wrong

By: William Carl Placher

Argues that contemporary discussion about God has a mistaken understanding of the classical Christian doctrines of God

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Westminster John Knox Press

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066425635X

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9780664256357

The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640

By: William James Bouwsma

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John Calvin

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Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty

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A Usable Past

A Usable Past

John Calvin

John Calvin

Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms

Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms

The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640

The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640

John Calvin

John Calvin

Die Erfahrung der Inflation im internationalen Zusammenhang und Vergleich

Die Erfahrung der Inflation im internationalen Zusammenhang und Vergleich

The Domestication of Transcendence

The Domestication of Transcendence

The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640

The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640

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