Consciences and the reformation : scruples over oaths and confessions in the era of Calvin and his contemporaries / Timothy R. Scheuers.

"We see Calvin most clearly - as a person and as a theologian - against the backdrop of his late medieval context. Older portrayals of Calvin as a father of modern doctrinal systems - popularized in early nineteenth- and twentieth-century accounts of the reformer's life and thought - have...

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Main Author: Scheuers, Timothy R. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Oxford studies in historical theology.
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