The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism (Oxford Handbooks) 9780198728818, 0198728816
The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism offers a comprehensive assessment of John Calvin and the tradition of Calvin
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Table of contents :
Cover
The Oxford Handbook of CALVIN AND CALVINISM
Copyright
Preface
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
Finding John Calvin
Reformer in Community
Recasting Calvin after 2009
Engaging Calvin and Calvinism
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 2: Calvin, Calvinism, and Medieval Thought
Calvin and Medieval Thought
The Re-emergenceof Scholasticism
Three Examples: Antoine de Chandieu, Lambert Daneau, and Polanus of Polansdorf
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 3: Divine and Human Agency in Calvin’s Institutes
Providence
Particular Providence
Basic Human Responsibility in a Providential World
Permitting vs. Willing
Sin and Evil
Human Responsibility for Sin
Responsibility for Good and Evil
Nested Intentions, Layered Agency
Conclusion: The Perennial Question of Determinism
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 4: Calvin and the Covenant: The Reception of Zurich Theology
Introduction
Past Research
Bullinger’s Theology of the Covenant
Zwingli as Forerunner
Bullinger as Developer
From Bullinger to Calvin
Calvin’s Theology of the Covenant
Covenant, Law, and Gospel
Covenant and Union with Christ
Covenant and Predestination
Covenant and Sacraments
Covenant and Creation
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 5: Calvin and Equity
Explication of the Two Concepts of Equity
Calvin’s Use of Equity
Equity in the Commentary on De Clementia
Equity in the 1536 Institutes
‘The Prince is a living law’
Problems with Calvin’s Concept of Equity
The Problem of a Pagan Ruler
How Do Christian Rulers Use Equity?
Conclusions
Calvin the Legal Humanist
The Fair and Clement Calvin
Calvin and Natural Law
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 6: Calvin’s Old Testament Theology and Beyond: Paradoxes, Problems, and Comparisons with the Approaches of Arnold van Ruler and Kornelis Heiko Miskotte
Introduction
Calvin’s Approach to the Old Testament
Unity of the Covenant
Christ the Mediator and the Old Testament
On Paradoxes and Problems
Arnold A. van Ruler and the Old Testament
Overview
Comparison
Kornelis Heiko Miskotte and the Old Testament
Overview
Comparison
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 7: John Calvin’s Vision of Reform, Historical Thinking, and the Modern World
Introduction
Reforming Traditions and Early Modern Views of the Past
Calvin’s Vision of Reform in the Supplex Exhortatio (1543)
Historical Thinking and Calvin’s Vision of Reform
Concluding Postscript: Troeltsch, Protestantism, and Historical Consciousness
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 8: Calvin’s Geneva: An Imperfect ‘School of Christ’
A Biconfessional Geneva?
Biconfessional Genevan Families
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 9: Calvinism, Anti-Calvinism, and the Admonition Controversy in Elizabethan England
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 10: John Knox and John Calvin
Knox’s Encounters with Calvin and His Works
The Relationship between Knox and Calvin
Predestination
Worship
Resisting a Ruler
Consequences
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 11: John Calvin, Bernardino Ochino, and Italian ‘Heretics’: History and Historiography of a Controversial Exchange
An Intolerant Calvin?
Reframing a Debated Historiographical Question
A Reformer and his Critics
Calvin and Italian Exiles: A History of Welcome and Prejudice
Between Calvin and the Radical Erasmus
Showdown
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 12: Calvin, Shakespeare, and Suspense
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 13: Calvin and Calvinism in Germany
Calvin in Germany
From Melanchthon to Calvin
Crypto-Calvinists
‘Calvinist’ Territories
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 14: Cultures of Calvinismin Early Modern Scotland
Introduction
Area Studies and Studies of Dissemination of Worship
Noble Culture
Intellectual Culture
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 15: Reformed Exiles andI nternational Calvinism in Reformation-Era Europe
Theology in the Exile Churches
Ecclesiology, Liturgy, and Discipline in the Exile Churches
Exile Churches’ Relationship to State Authority
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 16: The First Calvinist Encounters with New World Religions
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 17: Calvinist Debateson History: Historia Sacra, Historia Humana
Exodus from Egypt: The Calvinist Movement and the Appropriation of the Lutheran Historical Narrative
National Catastrophe or Biblical Trial: Rival Historical Readings of the Era of the French Wars of Religion in Calvinist Historiography
Historia Sacra vs. Historia Humana: The Burden of Living History and Attempts to Overcome It
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 18: Theology and Visual Culture in Early Modern Calvinism: Hiding in Plain Sight
From Iconoclasm to Reconstruction
A Visual and Oral World
The Drama of Reconstruction
Seventeenth-Century Netherlands: Textualized Images
Texts as Images
Architecture as Restoration: Huguenot Architects in France
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 19: The Effects of Confessional Strife on Religious Authority in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
Introduction
Scultetus’ Medulla
Jean Daillé’s Traicté de l’employ des saincts Peres
The Protestant Defence of the Hebrew Text: André Rivet and Louis Cappel
A Tenacious Advocate of Tradition: Denis Pétau
Concluding Remarks
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 20: Calvinism among Seventeenth-Century English Puritans
The Crisis of Calvinism and the English Puritans
John Owen, Richard Baxter, and the Mechanics of Calvinist Adaptation
Concluding Observations
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 21: Cromwellian Calvinism: England’s Church and the End of the Puritan Revolution
1652: Principles of Christian Religion
1654: Confessional Attempts
1658: Savoy Declaration and the Return to Westminster
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 22: Protestantism as Liberalism: John Milton and the Struggle Against Implicit Faith
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 23: Seventeenth-Century Calvinism and Early Enlightenment Thought
Calvinism, Calvin, and Early Enlightenment
Descartes and Cartesianism
Arnold Geulincx
Hobbes, Calvin, and the Divine Authority of the Bible
Spinozism
Bayle and Leibniz
Calvinists, Calvin, and Early Enlightenment
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 24: ‘If thou reckonright’: Angels from John Calvin to Jonathan Edwards via John Milton
Angelology in the Scholastic Tradition
Calvin the Iconoclast of Angels
Angels in America
Edwards and the Protestant Angelic Rococo
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 25: Religion and the Republic: An Eighteenth-Century Black Calvinist Perspective
On Noetic Agency: The Legitimacy of a Black Calvinist Tradition
The Calvinism of Wheatley and Haynes
Contested Continuity: On Religion and the Revolution
Anglo-AmericanCalvinism and the Revolution
On Providence and Liberty: A Black Calvinist Perspective
A Black Calvinist Revolutionary Politics
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 26: Eighteenth-Century Evangelical Calvinists
Introduction
Regional Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Evangelicalism
Gender and Race
Theological Disputes
Calvin’s Influence
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 27: Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Reformed Tradition in the Modern Era
The Life and Work of Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
The Essence of Piety and Communities of Piety
The Essence of Christian Faith and the Christian Church
The Influence of Christ in the Christian Church
Schleiermacher as Heir to the Reformed Tradition
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 28: Old Princeton and European Scholarship
Old Princeton, Calvinism, and the Enlightenment
Transatlantic Religion and Old Princeton
European Academic Networks and Princeton Theological Seminary
The Shift from Deism to Biblical Criticism
Old Princeton and European Biblical Scholarship
Old Princeton on European Critical Scholarship
Toward a Scientific Theology
Conclusion
Abbreviations of Journals Cited
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 29: Classical Calvinism and the Problem of Development: William Cunningham’s Critique of John Henry Newman
Introduction
Newman and Cunningham
Newman and the Challenge of Development
Cunningham on Newman
Newman, Cunningham, and Doctrinal Development Today
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 30: Writing the Nineteenth-Century Scottish Calvinist Self: Spiritual Autobiography and Reformed Identity
Self-Writing
Andrew A. Bonar
The Life of Robert Murray McCheyne (1844)
Having Received Communion, He Reflected, ‘Much Peace’
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (1848)
The Diary
Conversion Found
Ministry
The Lord’s Table
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 31: Unity and Engagement in the Modern World: Abraham Kuyper’s Calvinist Renewal
Disestablishment, Pluralism, and Mobilization
Conversion to Calvin and Calvinism
Kuyper’s Main Ideas
Free Church, Free Exercise
Epistemology
Calvinism as Life-System
Sphere Sovereignty
Common Grace
Neo-Calvinismat Home and Abroad
America
The Netherlands
Africa
Epilogue: Kuyper Haphazard
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 32: Karl Barth’s Calvin: A Weimar Prophet
‘A Strange and Terrifying Calvin’
Barth’s Itinerary and the Weimar Context
The University and Occasional Lectures
Barth’s Romantic-Modernist Portrait of Calvin
Barth and Eastern Wisdom
Weberian Severity and Religious Psychology
Ontology and Ethics: The Sickness of Man unto Death
The Dialectic of the Thought of God: Jesus Christ
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 33: Calvinism and Reformed Confessions in the Korean Presbyterian Church
The Beginning and Development of the Korean Presbyterian Churches
The First Creed of the KPC: The 12 Articles
The Korean Presbyterian Churches and Westminster Standards
The Development of the Korean Presbyterian Church: The Study of Calvinism and other Reformed Confessions
Before 1945
From 1945 through 1979
After 1980
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 34: Calvinism as a Chinese Contextual Theology
Introduction
Protestant Missions to China
The Challenge of ‘Evil Cults’
The Rise of Urban Intellectual Christianity
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 35: (Re)Discoveries of the Reformed Faith in Brazil
Introduction
Calvinist Influences in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brazil
Twenty-First-Century Calvinism in Brazil
Problems in Understanding the Reformed Tradition
Towards a Richer Comprehension of Calvinism in Brazil
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 36: Enchanted Calvinism: Healing and Deliverance in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana
Enchanted Transformations of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana
Origins of the Bible Study and Prayer Group
Scripture Union and Sudan Interior Mission
Catechist Ebenezer Abboah-Offei, Deliverance Practitioner
Grace Presbyterian Church
Deliverance Services and Workshops at Grace Presbyterian Church
Individual Consultation at Grace Presbyterian Church
Deliverance Outside of Grace Presbyterian Church
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 37: Reforming Calvinism
Introduction
Rationalism and Reformation
Emerging Modernity
Integrated Calvinism
Charismatic Protestantism
Twentieth-Century Catholicism in the USA
The Harms of Over Rationalism
Prophetic Integration
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 38: No Other Gods: Calvinism and Secular Society
Christian Secularity
The Reformation, Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, and the Confessional State
The Coming of the Secular State
The Contemporary Debate
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Chapter 39: The New Calvinism
Definitions and Origins
Old Calvinism in New Spaces
Rigorous Revivalism
Conclusion
Suggested Reading
Works Cited
Index
