The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism

The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism offers a comprehensive assessment of John Calvin and the tradition of Calvinism as it evolved from the sixteenth century to today. Featuring contributions from scholars who present the latest research on a pluriform religious movement that became a global faith. The volume focuses on key aspects of Calvin's thought and its diverse reception in Europe, the transatlantic world, Africa, South America, and Asia. Calvin's theology was from the beginning open to a wide range of interpretations and was never a static body of ideas and practices. Over the course of his life his thought evolved and deepened while retaining unresolved tensions and questions that created a legacy that was constantly evolving in different cultural contexts. Calvinism itself is an elusive term, bringing together Christian communities that claim a shared heritage but often possess radically distinct characters. The Handbook reveals fascinating patterns of continuity and change to demonstrate how the movement claimed the name of the Genevan reformer but was moulded by an extraordinary range of religious, intellectual and historical influences, from the Enlightenment and Darwinism to indigenous African beliefs and postmodernism. In its global contexts, Calvinism has been continuously reimagined and reinterpreted. This collection throws new light on the highly dynamic and fluid nature of a deeply influential form of Christianity.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures List of Contributors 1: Bruce Gordon and Carl R. Trueman: Introduction 2: Ueli Zahnd: Calvin, Calvinism, and Medieval Thought 3: Emily Theus: Divine and Human Agency in Calvin's Institutes 4: Pierrick Hildebrand: Calvin and the Covenant: The Reception of Zurich Theology 5: Alexander Batson: Calvin and Equity 6: Arnold Huijgen: Calvin's Old Testament Theology and Beyond: The Approaches of A.A. van Ruler and K.H. Miskotte 7: Barbara Pitkin: John Calvin's Vision of Reform, Historical Thinking, and the Modern World 8: Karen E. Spierling: Calvin's Geneva: An Imperfect 'School of Christ' 9: Robert Harkins: Calvinism, Anti-Calvinism, and the Admonition Controversy in Elizabethan England 10: Jane Dawson: John Knox and John Calvin 11: Michele Camaioni: John Calvin, Bernardino Ochino, and Italian 'Heretics': History and Historiography of a controversial exchange 12: Claire McEachern: Calvin, Shakespeare, and Suspense 13: Christopher Ocker: Calvin and Calvinism in Germany 14: Steven J. Reid: Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Scotland 15: Jesse Spohnholz: Reformed Exiles and International Calvinism in Reformation-Era Europe 16: Mark Valeri: The First Calvinist Encounters with New World Religions 17: Costas Gaganakis: Historia Sacra, Historia Humana: Calvinist debates on History 18: William A. Dyrness: Hiding in Plain Sight: Theology and Visual Culture in Early Modern Calvinism 19: Henk Nellen: The Effects of Confessional Strife on Religious Authority in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century 20: Timothy Cooper: Calvinism among Seventeenth-Century English Puritans 21: Hunter Powell: Cromwellian Calvinism: England's Church and the End of the Puritan Revolution 22: R. Bradley Holden: Protestantism as Liberalism: John Milton and the Struggle against Implicit Faith 23: Aza Goudriaan: Seventeenth-Century Calvinism and Early Enlightenment Thought 24: Kenneth P. Minkema: Angels from John Calvin to Jonathan Edwards via John Milton 25: Steven M. Harris: 1. Religion and the Republic: An Eighteenth-Century Black Calvinist Perspective 26: Jonathan Yeager: Eighteenth-Century Evangelical Calvinists 27: Randall C. Zachman: Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Reformed Tradition in the Modern Era 28: Annette G. Aubert: Old Princeton and European Scholarship 29: Carl R. Trueman: Classical Calvinism and the Problem of Development: William Cunningham's Critique of John Henry Newman 30: Bruce Gordon: Writing the Nineteenth-Century Scottish Calvinist Self: Spiritual Autobiography and Reformed Identity 31: John Halsey Wood, Jr.: Unity and Engagement: Abraham Kuyper's Calvinist Renewal 32: Ryan Glomsrud: Karl Barth's Calvin: A Weimar Prophet 33: Byunghoon Kim: Calvinism and Reformed Confessions in Korean Presbyterian Church 34: Alexander Chow: Calvinism as a Chinese Contextual Theology 35: Heber Campos, Jr.: (Re)Discoveries of the Reformed Faith in Brazil 36: Adam Mohr: Enchanted Calvinism: Healing and Deliverance in Ghana 37: Shannon Craigo-Snell: Reforming Calvinism 38: D.G. Hart: No Other Gods: Calvinism and Secular Society 39: Flynn Cratty: The New Calvinism