Karen Spierling

Karen Spierling
Denison University · Department of History

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This collection offers a fresh assessment of John Calvin and the tradition of Calvinism as it evolved from the sixteenth century to today. The essays are written by 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...
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Historical scholarship on consistories has overlooked the context of the theological and polemical debates regarding scandal in the sixteenth century, leaving us without a full understanding of the negotiations and debates in which Genevan inhabitants and consistory members engaged regarding the articulation of moral values and the supervision of t...
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Calvin's Company of Pastors: Pastoral Care and the Emerging Reformed Church, 1536–1609. By Scott M.Manetsch. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xi + 428 pp. $74.00 cloth. - Volume 83 Issue 2 - Karen E. Spierling
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For centuries the history of the European Reformation was written in the terms of sixteenth-century religious rhetoric: Protestants vs Papists and heretics vs idolators. While scholarly discussions in recent decades have come to focus more on the nuances of coexistence, negotiation, and the complex factors involved in these religious controversies,...
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This article begins to examine the role of servants in the implementation of the Genevan Reformation in the 1530s–1560s by looking at the Genevan Consistory records and city legislation as recorded in the Sources du Droit, as well as considering John Calvin's stance on the absolute importance of truth in a godly society. It contrasts official effor...

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