Adaptations of Calvinism in Reformation Europe : Essays in Honour of Brian G. Armstrong (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction, Mack P. Holt; Part I Calvin, Beza, and Geneva: John Calvin's interpretation of Psalm 22, Bernard Roussel; Was Calvin a crypto-Zwinglian?, Anthony N.S. Lane; Development and coherence in Calvin's Institutes: the case of baptism (Institutes 4:15-4:16), David F. Wright; God's eternal decree and its temporal execution: the role of this distinction in Theodore Beza's theology, Donald Sinnema. Part II: Reformed Ideas Outside Geneva: A lay voice in 16th-century 'ecumenics': Katharina SchA¼tz Zell in dialogue with Johannes Brenz, Conrad Pellican and Caspar Schwenckfeld, Elsie Anne McKee; Vera Ecclesiae Concordia: Martin Bucer's blueprint for the Reformation in France, Willem van't Spijker; Politique and spiritualist tolerance: Bodin's Heptaplomeres and Coornhert's Synodus, Gerrit. Voogt. Part III The Reformation in France: The Genevan model and Gallican originality in the French reformed tradition, Raymond A. Mentzer; Divisions within French Calvinism: Philippe Duplessis-Mornay and the Eucharist, Mack P. Holt; The Jacques Royer affair, 1604-1624: an argument over liturgy in Geneva and France, Robert M. Kingdon. Part IV The Reformations in England and Scotland: A Calvinist bishop at the court of King Charles I, Daniel J. Steere; Popular polity?: the imposition of Elizabethan church discipline in the Deanery of Stottesden, Brett G. Armstrong; Marginal at best: John Knox's contribution to the Geneva Bible, 1560, Dale Walden Johnson; Index.