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Calvin (Paperback)
F. Bruce Gordon
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A revealing new portrait of John Calvin that captures his human
complexity and the sixteenth-century world in which he fought his
personal and theological battles During the glory days of the
French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a
profound conversion to the faith of the Reformation. For the rest
of his days he lived out the implications of that transformation-as
exile, inspired reformer, and ultimately the dominant figure of the
Protestant Reformation. Calvin's vision of the Christian religion
has inspired many volumes of analysis, but this engaging biography
examines a remarkable life. Bruce Gordon presents Calvin as a human
being, a man at once brilliant, arrogant, charismatic, unforgiving,
generous, and shrewd. The book explores with particular insight
Calvin's self-conscious view of himself as prophet and apostle for
his age and his struggle to tame a sense of his own superiority,
perceived by others as arrogance. Gordon looks at Calvin's
character, his maturing vision of God and humanity, his personal
tragedies and failures, his extensive relationships with others,
and the context within which he wrote and taught. What emerges is a
man who devoted himself to the Church, inspiring and transforming
the lives of others, especially those who suffered persecution for
their religious beliefs.
A major new biography of Huldrych Zwingli-the warrior preacher who
shaped the early Reformation Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) was the
most significant early reformer after Martin Luther. As the
architect of the Reformation in Switzerland, he created the
Reformed tradition later inherited by John Calvin. His movement
ultimately became a global religion. A visionary of a new society,
Zwingli was also a divisive and fiercely radical figure. Bruce
Gordon presents a fresh interpretation of the early Reformation and
the key role played by Zwingli. A charismatic preacher and
politician, Zwingli transformed church and society in Zurich and
inspired supporters throughout Europe. Yet, Gordon shows, he was
seen as an agitator and heretic by many and his bellicose,
unyielding efforts to realize his vision would prove his undoing.
Unable to control the movement he had launched, Zwingli died on the
battlefield fighting his Catholic opponents.
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