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Calvin and His Influence, 1509-2009 (Paperback)
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Calvin and His Influence, 1509-2009 (Paperback)
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The year 2009 marked Calvin's 500th birthday. This volume collects
papers initially written as the plenary addresses for the largest
international scholarly conference held in connection with this
anniversary, organized in Geneva by the Institute of Reformation
History. The organizers chose as theme for the conference ''Calvin
and His Influence 1509-2009, '' hoping to stimulate reflection
about what Calvin's ideas and example have meant across the five
centuries since his lifetime, as well as about how much validity
the classic interpretations that have linked his legacy to
fundamental features of modernity such as democracy, capitalism, or
science still retain. In brief, the story that emerges from the
book is as follows: In the generations immediately after Calvin's
death, he became an authority whose writings were widely cited by
leading ''Calvinist'' theologians, but he was in fact just one of
several Reformed theologians of his generation who were much
appreciated by these theologians. In the eighteenth century, his
writings began to be far less frequently cited. Even in Reformed
circles what was now most frequently recalled was his action during
the Servetus affair, so that he now started to be widely criticized
in those quarters of the Reformed tradition that were now attached
to the idea of toleration or the ideal of a free church. In the
nineteenth century, his theology was recovered again in a variety
of different contexts, while scholars established the monument to
his life and work that was the Opera Calvini and undertook major
studies of his life and times. Church movements now claimed the
label ''Calvinist'' for themselves with increasing insistence and
pride. (The term had largely been a derogatory label in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.) The movements that identified
themselves as Calvinist or were identified as such by
contemporaries nonetheless varied considerably in the manner in
which they drew upon and understood Calvin's thought. Calvin and
His Influence should become the starting point for further
scholarly reflection about the history of Calvinism, from its
origin to the present.
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