Jon Balserak

Gebundenes Buch

Geneva's Use of Lies, Deceit, and Subterfuge, 1536-1563

Telling the Old, Old Story in Reformation France

Beschreibung

This study examines the ethical character of John Calvin and his Genevan colleagues' evangelizing of France. It reveals that Calvin's plans for proselytizing his homeland involved lying, deception, and obfuscation which were employed as a means of evading detection by the French authorities. Balserak considers important questions about the relationship between godliness and cunning, about Calvin's manufacturing of his image, and about the lengths to which he and his colleagues went to spread their gospel.

Autor

Jon Balserak is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of Bristol. He earned his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2002 and his research focuses on Christian history and thought in the Renaissance and Early Modern periods, with an emphasis on the Reformations in France and Geneva, John Calvin, Theodore Beza, dissimulation and lying, divine accommodation, the history of prophecy, and the interpretation of the Bible. His prior publications include Calvinism: A Very Short Introduction (2017) and John Calvin as Sixteenth-Century Prophet (2014).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780197672303
• ISBN-10: 0197672302
• Artikelnr.: 71811624