| Life Of John Calvin Revised Edition Contributor(s): McGrath (Author) |
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ISBN: 0631189475 ISBN-13: 9780631189473 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons OUR PRICE: $66.28 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1993 Annotation: History occasionally produces figures whose influence on their own and successive generations is immense. Marx, Freud and Lenin had such an influence, and so, Alister McGrath argues, does John Calvin. This book provides a fresh and lucid exploration of Calvin's life and influence, his theology and his political thought, and his determining of the course of European history. It traces Calvin's remarkable impact on the development of modern Western attitudes to work, wealth, civil rights, capitalism and the natural sciences. Published to wide critical acclaim in hardback and now available in paperback, this ground-breaking study of Calvin will be welcomed by all concerned with an understanding of the shaping of modern western culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Study in the Shaping of Western Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6" W x 9.14" (1.14 lbs) 358 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Theometrics - Reformed - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first biography of John Calvin since 1975 and the only life of the great reformer to analyse his impact on subsequent generations of theologians, politicians, economists and philosophers. This biography is theologically unbiased and is written as much for historians and general readers as for those interested in Calvin the Church reformer. |