The Unaccommodated Calvin

The Unaccommodated Calvin
Author: Richard Alfred Muller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2000
Genre: Calvinism
ISBN: 0195151682

This book attempts to understand Calvin in his 16th-century context, with attention to continuities and discontinuities between his thought and that of his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors. Muller pays particular attention to the interplay between theological and philosophical themes common to Calvin and the medieval doctors, and to developments in rhetoric and method associated with humanism.

The Unaccommodated Calvin : Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition

The Unaccommodated Calvin : Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition
Author: Richard A. Muller P. J. Zondervan Professor of Historical Theology Calvin Theological Seminary
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2000-01-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0198027648

This book attempts to understand Calvin in his 16th-century context, with attention to continuities and discontinuities between his thought and that of his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors. Muller pays particular attention to the interplay between theological and philosophical themes common to Calvin and the medieval doctors, and to developments in rhetoric and method associated with humanism.

After Calvin

After Calvin
Author: Richard Alfred Muller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 019515701X

In this sequel to Muller's 'The Unaccommodated Calvin' (OUP 2000), the author carries his approach forward, with the goal of overcoming a series of 19th- and 20th-century theological frameworks characteristic of much of the scholarship on Reformed orthodoxy, or 'Calvinism after Calvin'.

Christ and the Decree

Christ and the Decree
Author: Richard A. Muller
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441239073

In Christ and the Decree, one of the foremost scholars of Calvinism today expounds the doctrines of Christ and predestination as they were developed by Calvin, Bullinger, Musculus, Vermigli, Beza, Ursinus, Zanchi, Polanus, and Perkins. Muller analyzes the relationship of these two doctrines to each other and to the soteriological structure of the system. Back by demand, this seminal work on the relationship between Calvin and the Calvinists is once again available with a new contextualizing preface by the author. It offers a succinct introduction to the early development of Calvinism/Reformation thought.

Calvin and the Christian Tradition

Calvin and the Christian Tradition
Author: R. Ward Holder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2022-06-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1009081179

John Calvin lived in a divided world when past certainties were crumbling. Calvin claimed that his thought was completely based upon scripture, but he was mistaken. At several points in his thought and his ministry, he set his own foundations upon tradition. His efforts to make sense of his culture and its religious life mirror issues that modern Western cultures face, and that have contributed to our present situation. In this book, R. Ward Holder offers new insights into Calvin's successes and failures and suggests pathways for understanding some of the problems of contemporary Western culture such as the deep divergence about living in tradition, the modern capacity to agree on the foundations of thought, and even the roots of our deep political polarization. He traces Calvin's own critical engagement with the tradition that had formed him and analyzes the inherent divisions in modern heritage that affect our ability to agree, not only religiously or politically, but also about truth. An epilogue comparing biblical interpretation with Constitutional interpretation is illustrative of contemporary issues and demonstrates how historical understanding can offer solutions to tensions in modern culture.

The Zurich Origins of Reformed Covenant Theology

The Zurich Origins of Reformed Covenant Theology
Author: Pierrick Hildebrand
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2024-03-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0197607578

This book explores the origins and development of one of the most significant doctrines of Reformation theology. The innovative ways in which the Zurich reformer Huldrych Zwingli and his successor Heinrich Bullinger thought about the relationship between the Old and New Testaments left an indelible mark on the Reformed tradition in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Distinctively, Zwingli and Bullinger emphasized the continuity of both testaments and spoke of a single covenant between God and humanity. This would become one of the defining teachings of Reformed Christianity. This book follows the development of their "covenant theology" in the Reformation and argues for its adoption by John Calvin in Geneva and the German theologians of the post-Reformation era.

Teaching Predestination

Teaching Predestination
Author: David H. Kranendonk
Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 160178323X

In Teaching Predestination , David H. Kranendonk focuses on the ministry of an early seventeenth-century Puritan-leaning theologian, Elnathan Parr (1577–1622). Although relatively unknown today, Parr’s works were popular in his own day. Kranendonk’s survey contributes a nuanced picture of this English Reformed pastor and demonstrates that Parr’s scholastic development of predestination, coupled with his pastoral concern for the salvation and edification of his hearers, resists the caricature of Reformed Scholasticism as being a philosophically speculative system. Here one sees the practical use of predestination for the care of souls as Parr and others aimed to help increase the faith and joy of God’s people. Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Elnathan Parr’s Life and Ministry 3. Elnathan Parr’s Principles of Preaching 4. Elnathan Parr’s Exposition of Romans 5. Elnathan Parr’s Grounds of Divinity

Calvin, Classical Trinitarianism, and the Aseity of the Son

Calvin, Classical Trinitarianism, and the Aseity of the Son
Author: Brannon Ellis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199652406

Brannon Ellis investigates the various Reformation and post-Reformation responses to Calvin's affirmation of the Son's aseity (or essential self-existence), a significant episode in the history of theology that is often ignored or misunderstood.

Calvinism's First Battleground

Calvinism's First Battleground
Author: Michael W. Bruening
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2006-01-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1402041942

This book sheds new light on the origin of Calvinism and the Reformed faith through a detailed history of its progress in the Pays de Vaud. A careful examination of twin conflicts – the forced conversion of a Catholic populace to Protestantism by the Bernese; and the struggle of Calvinists against the Zwinglian political and theological ideas that dominated the Swiss Confederation – helps show why the Reformation bloomed where and when it did.

John Calvin as Teacher, Pastor, and Theologian

John Calvin as Teacher, Pastor, and Theologian
Author: Randall C. Zachman
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2006-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 080103129X

Offers a comprehensive understanding of Calvin and the scope of his work and writing in a clear, accessible fashion.