Calvin in Context Second Edition [Paperback]

The book illuminates Calvin's thought by placing it in the context of the theological and exegetical traditions--ancient, medieval, and contemporary-- that formed it and contributed to its particular texture. Steinmetz addresses a range of issues almost as wide as the Reformation itself, including the knowledge of God, the problem of iconoclasm, the doctrines of justification and predestination, and the role of the state and the civil magistrate. Along the way, Steinmetz also clarifies the substance of Calvin's quarrels with Lutherans, Catholics, Anabaptists, and assorted radicals from Ochino to Sozzini. For the new edition he has added a new Preface and four new chapters based on recent published and unpublished essays. An accessible yet authoritative general introduction to Calvin's thought, Calvin in Context engages a much wider range of primary sources than the standard introductions. It provides a context for understanding Calvin not from secondary literature about the later middle ages and Renaissance, but from the writings of Calvin's own contemporaries and the rich sources from which they drew.

Preface

1 Introduction to Calvin

2. Calvin and the Natural Knowledge of God

3. Calvin and the Absolute Power of God

5. Calvin and the First Commandment

6. Calvin and Abraham

7. Calvin and Tamar

8. Calvin and Isaiah

9. Calvin and the Divided Self of Romans 7

10. Calvin and Patristic Exegesis

11. Calvin among the Thomists

12. Calvin and the Baptism of John

13. Calvin and his Lutheran Critics

14. Calvin and the Monastic Ideal

15. Calvin and the Civil Magistrate

16. The Judaizing Calvin

17, Calvin ad the Jews

18. Calvin and the Ancient Philosophers

19. The Scholastic Calvin

20. Calvin and the Irrepressible Spirit

21.. Concluding Observations

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