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Calvin Meets Voltaire - The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, 1685-1798 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Calvin Meets Voltaire - The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, 1685-1798 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In 1754, Voltaire, one of the most famous and provocative writers
of the period, moved to the city of Geneva. Little time passed
before he instigated conflict with the clergy and city as he
publicly maligned the memory of John Calvin, promoted the culture
of the French theater, and incited political unrest within Genevan
society. Conflict with the clergy reached a fever pitch in 1757
when Jean d'Alembert published the article 'Geneve' for the
Encyclopedie. Much to the consternation of the clergy, his article
both castigated Calvin and depicted his clerical legacy as
Socinian. Since then, little has been resolved over the theological
position of Calvin's clerical legacy while much has been made of
their declining significance in Genevan life during the
Enlightenment era. Based upon a decade of research on the sources
at Geneva's Archives d'A0/00tat and Bibliotheque de Geneve, this
book provides the first comprehensive monograph devoted to Geneva's
Enlightenment clergy. Examination of the social, political,
theological, and cultural encounter of the Reformation with the
Enlightenment in the figurative meeting of Calvin and Voltaire
brings to light the life, work, and thought of Geneva's
eighteenth-century clergy. In addition to examination of the
convergence with the philosophes, prosopographical research
uncovers clerical demographics at work. Furthermore, the nature of
clerical involvement in Genevan society and periods of political
unrest are considered along with the discovery of a 'Reasonable
Calvinism' at work in the public preaching and liturgy of Genevan
worship. This research moves Geneva's narrative beyond a simplistic
paradigm of 'decline' and secularization, offers further evidence
for a revisionist understanding of the Enlightenment's engagement
with religion, and locates Geneva's clergy squarely in the newly
emerging category of the 'Religious Enlightenment.' Finally, the
significance of French policy from the Revocat
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