TY - BOOK AU - Parker,T.H.L. TI - John Calvin: a biography SN - 9780664231811 (alk. paper) AV - BX 9418 .P344 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Louisville, Ky. PB - Westminster John Knox Press KW - Calvin, Jean, KW - Calvin, Jean. N1 - Originally published: London : Dent, 1975; Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-217) and index; Childhood and youth. Child of the church ; Arts student ; Training in philosophy -- Orl�eans and Bourges. The study of civil law ; Friends and relatives ; Bourges and a new start ; The first book ; Fugitive from injustice -- Christianae religionis institutio. Its character and purpose ; Law, faith, and prayer ; The sacraments ; Liberty -- Genevan trials. An exile from home ; Sixteenth-century Geneva ; Church authority ; Organization in theory and practice -- The French minister in Strasbourg. Matters domestic and pastoral ; The new Institutio ; The commentary on Romans ; Geneva changes its mind -- The Genevan Church settlement. The Ordinances ; The church at worship ; Calvin the preacher -- Opposition to a godly society. The opposition musters ; Calvin at home ; The Institutio again and New Testament commentaries ; The opposition grows ; The battle over discipline -- Defeat into security. The trial and death of Servetus ; The fall of the Perrinists ; The university of Geneva ; Old Testament commentaries and the final Institutio -- Caring for the churches. The one body ; Letters private and public ; Outside Geneva -- Christ is gain in dying.´ UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007014833.html ER -