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Calvinism: A Very Short Introduction

open access: yes, 2016
In this work Jon Balserak explores major ideas and issues associated with the Calvinist system of thought. He looks at how Calvinist ideas and practices spread and took root, helping shape societies today.
Balserak, Jon 1964-
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1. Calvinism: what’s in a name?

open access: yes, 2016
The roots of Calvinism are found in 16th-century Zurich and Geneva, which became major centres for Reformation under the guidance of Ulrich Zwingli, John Calvin, and Heinrich Bullinger.
Jon Balserak
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Calvin and Calvinism in Germany

2021
Abstract Calvin’s experience of Germany was limited and partial, but his theology played an important role there. It came to be associated with a kind of Protestant internationalism, while specific points of his doctrine formed a polemical cypher used by some German Lutherans, many in the service of imperial princes, against Philip ...
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Calvin, Calvinism, and Philosophy

2020
Although John Calvin was not a philosopher by profession, he was educated in the subject; although Calvin became a theologian par excellence, he had no formal theological education. One might expect such a person to be a philosopher first and a theologian second.
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John Calvin and later Calvinism

open access: yes, 2004
Between the middle of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth, the Reformed theology of John Calvin and several of his predecessors and contemporaries developed into a significant international movement that has come to be known as ...
Richard A. Muller, Muller, Richard A.
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The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism

2021
Abstract This collection offers a fresh assessment of John Calvin and the tradition of Calvinism as it evolved from the sixteenth century to today. The essays are written by scholars who present the latest research on a pluriform religious movement that became a global faith.
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Believer Selectivity in Calvin and Calvinism

The British Journal of Sociology, 1994
Cet article constitue un relecture de la theorie de Weber developpee dans «L'Ethique protestante et l'esprit du capitalisme». L'A. montre que l'on ne saurait lier, contrairement a ce qu'affirmait Weber, interpretation calviniste du dogme, angoisse liee au Salut et preuve de l'election par l'engagement de l'individu dans son travail concu comme vocation.
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