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Friends of Calvin (Paperback, English ed.)
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In two dozen short biographies of John Calvin's friends including
some who turned into enemies Machiel A. van den Berg paints an
intimate portrait of the great Reformer's life and circle that most
of us have never seen. / In these pages we accompany Calvin from
his early boyhood in Noyon to his student days in Paris and
Orleans, to his pastorate in and exile from Geneva, all the way to
his deathbed. We meet his famous Reformer friends, such as Martin
Bucer, William Farel, Heinrich Bullinger, Theodore Beza, and John
Knox, but also friends whose names are more obscure: his cousin
Pierre Robert Olivtan, the first translator of the Bible into
French; Ren de France of French royalty; Laurent de Normandie, the
mayor of Noyon who later escaped to Geneva; Pierre Viret, his best
friend of all; and Idelette van Buren, his beloved wife during
their brief but blissful marriage. / Calvin may be known as a
scholar who preferred his study to imperial and ecclesiastical
politics, but he was also a rebel of faith against the papacy,
which controlled most of Europe and had a price on the heads of all
"reform-minded" citizens, especially their leaders. Allegiances to
Rome were constantly in flux in the empires of Europe as were the
lives and welfare of dissenters and Calvins life was full of
perilous risks, political intrigue, much harried travel, and many
relocations. / Peppered with quotations from Calvin's voluminous
letters, Friends of Calvin abounds with secret court relationships,
love affairs, death threats, poisonings, and narrow midnight
escapes from the pursuing authorities showing a full-blooded and
dangerous side of the bookish Reformer's life. Readers of these
colorful narratives will come to see how much Calvins friends
influenced his life and thought.
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