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In recognition of the 500th anniversary of John Calvin's birth, Modern Reformation editors have solicited essays from a number of authorities on Calvin's life and work. Not all of our writers are "Calvinists" (that is, they would not all necessarily agree with him or follow in his theological footsteps), but each has identified a particular point of Calvin's thought that helps contribute to an overall perspective of Calvin's influence in his time and ours. We're grateful to these writers, some of whom might not normally appear in our pages, for lending us their own words as we contemplate the many faces of John Calvin.
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1 [ Back ] R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (London: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1926), 226-7.
2 [ Back ] This assertion is at its most explicit in some of the writings of John Bossy: cf. especially J. Bossy, Christianity in the West 1400-1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), 140-52, 167-71. It might also be seen as a tendency in classic English 'revisionist' work on the Reformation such as J. J. Scarisbrick, The Reformation and the English People (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), and E. Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992).
Diarmaid MacCulloch is professor of the history of the church in the University of Oxford. His next book is A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Allen Lane, 2009).
Issue: "Calvin at 500: Does He Still Matter?" Special Issue 2009 Vol. 18 No. 7 Page number(s): 20, 24
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