Calvin and the Book: The Evolution of the Printed Word in Reformed Protestantism

Contributor(s): Cameron, Euan (Contribution by), Gordon, Bruce (Contribution by), Myer Boulton, Matthew (Contribution by), McNutt, Jennifer Powell (Contribution by), Spierling, Karen E (Contribution by), Pettegree, Andrew (Contribution by), Todd, Margo (Contribution by), Dyrness, William (Contribution by), Spierling, Karen E (Editor), Frank, Günter (Not Available), Lotz-Heumann, Ute (Not Available), Mahlmann-Bauer, Barbara (Not Available), Schilling, Johannes (Not Available), Wassilowsky, Günther (Not Available), Westphal, Siegrid (Not Available), Rasmussen, Tarald (Not Available), Lamberigts, Mathijs (Not Available), Gordon, Bruce (Not Available), Whitford, David M (Not Available)

ISBN: 9783525550885

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Hardcover

$138.00

Pub Date: August 19, 2015

Lexile Code: 0000

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.70" H x 9.30" L x 6.40" W ( 0.90 lbs) 170 pages

BISAC Categories:

Religion | Christianity | History | Protestant

Series: Refo500 Academic Studies

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: John Calvin's relation to the printed Word.

Brief description: Dr. Bruce Gordon is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School.

Review Quotes: "This illuminating book shows the ways in which printed texts shaped the transmission and reception of Calvin's theological teachings as well as 'important dynamics of how later Reformed Christians received and engaged those teachings, as articulated in printed texts.'" --Donald McKim, Renaissance Quarterly Vol 69, No 3