Item #2325425 John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait. William J. Bouwsma.

John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait

New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2325425
ISBN: 0195043944

First edition. Lacks jacket, board edges faded.

Frenchman, an exile, and a humanist in the tradition of Erasmus, Calvin was unusually sensitive to the complexities and contradictions of later Renaissance culture. The Calvin who emerges from this eloquent study is a surprisingly human, more plausible, more ecumenical, and often sympathetic figure, whose achievement was both more and less than -- and at the same time quite different from -- the way it has commonly been portrayed.

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