Backus & Benedict, eds., “Calvin & His Influence: 1509-2009″
This is a fascinating new book of essays edited by Irena Backus and Philip Benedict (both of the University of Geneva), Calvin & His Influence: 1509-2009 (OUP 2011). Calvinist and neo-Calvinist...
View ArticleBratt, “Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat”
Dutch neo-Calvinism has had a major, though understudied, impact on American thinking about church and state. And one can see the influence of one of neo-Calvinism’s greatest minds, Abraham Kuyper, in...
View ArticleTocqueville on Pantheism: Part I
We have seen that Tocqueville believes that the dominant American faith, Protestantism, will tend to decompose. The process of dissolution will occur in two phases. In the first, Protestantism (or more...
View ArticleVan Engen, “Sympathetic Puritans”
In February, Oxford University Press will release “Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England” by Abram Van Engen (Washington University). The publisher’s description follows:...
View ArticleTuininga, “Calvin’s Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church”
In March, Cambridge University Press will release Calvin’s Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church: Christ’s Two Kingdoms by Matthew J. Tuininga (Calvin Theological Seminary). The...
View ArticleA New Book on Covenant Theology
Calvinist Covenant Theology, refracted through the colonial experience in New England, had a large influence on the American Founding. A book out last month from Yale University Press, Kinship by...
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