Jon Balserak
I teach and study the history of Christianity in the Renaissance and Early Modern period, with special attention to the Reformations in France and Geneva, dissimulation and lying, the history of prophecy, the interpretation of the Bible, and John Calvin and Calvinism.
I have recently edited _A Companion to the Reformation in Geneva_ which will be published by Brill in 2021. It contains nineteen chapters by a superb collection of scholars.
I serve as book review editor for 'Reformation & Renaissance Review.'
FOR A MUCH MORE UPDATED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS, see my profile at Univ of Bristol:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/religion/people/
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Address: University of Bristol,
School of Humanities
3/5 Woodland rd
Bristol
BS8 1TB England
US Address:
614 S. Laflin Street, Unit E
Chicago, IL 60607
I have recently edited _A Companion to the Reformation in Geneva_ which will be published by Brill in 2021. It contains nineteen chapters by a superb collection of scholars.
I serve as book review editor for 'Reformation & Renaissance Review.'
FOR A MUCH MORE UPDATED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS, see my profile at Univ of Bristol:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/religion/people/
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Address: University of Bristol,
School of Humanities
3/5 Woodland rd
Bristol
BS8 1TB England
US Address:
614 S. Laflin Street, Unit E
Chicago, IL 60607
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Preface
Chapter 1 Calvinism – What’s in a Name?
Chapter 2 Conversion
Chapter 3 Culture
Chapter 4 Church
Chapter 5 Knowledge
Chapter 6 Covenant
Chapter 7 Humanity and New Humanity
Chapter 8 God and Hell
Chronology
Further Reading
1) It begins with an analysis of thinking on prophecy in early, medieval, and Reformation theology.
2) It finds Calvin within a non-mystical, non-apocalyptic prophetic tradition that focused on scriptural interpretation.
3) It argues Calvin believed his prophetic authority was the same as Isaiah and Jeremiah, and suggests that he may have held himself to be infallible in matters related to Christian doctrine.
4) It argues that starting from about 1555, Calvin began to conceive the idea of encouraging one of the French 'lesser magistrates' (the princes of the blood royal) to rise up in armed conflict against the sitting French king with the aim of taking the throne.
5) Thus, it argues that when that did happen in 1562 when Louis of Condé gathered troops in Orléans and declared their intentions to liberate King Charles IX from the evil councillors surrounding him, this had Calvin's fingerprints on it -- Calvin was to a significant degree responsible for this turn of events.
6) Calvin pursued this plan, I argue, as one of a number of approaches to winning France for the gospel. In this way, the volume explores Calvin's sense of vocation and the impact this had on his political thought.
In pursuing these matters, Dr Balserak provides a rigorous consideration of many of the individual places in Calvin’s corpus where he discusses accommodation. This enables him to set out a summary of the basic qualities which characterize Calvin’s handling of the motif. The addition of chapters on the relationship of Calvin’s thought on accommodation to his use of the potentia absoluta/ordinata distinction and on the influence of accommodation on his views on the truth and applicability of Scripture allows this study to examine its topic from different angles. The result is a work which offers a substantial reassessment of Calvin's thinking on divine accommodation.
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Preface
Chapter 1 Calvinism – What’s in a Name?
Chapter 2 Conversion
Chapter 3 Culture
Chapter 4 Church
Chapter 5 Knowledge
Chapter 6 Covenant
Chapter 7 Humanity and New Humanity
Chapter 8 God and Hell
Chronology
Further Reading
1) It begins with an analysis of thinking on prophecy in early, medieval, and Reformation theology.
2) It finds Calvin within a non-mystical, non-apocalyptic prophetic tradition that focused on scriptural interpretation.
3) It argues Calvin believed his prophetic authority was the same as Isaiah and Jeremiah, and suggests that he may have held himself to be infallible in matters related to Christian doctrine.
4) It argues that starting from about 1555, Calvin began to conceive the idea of encouraging one of the French 'lesser magistrates' (the princes of the blood royal) to rise up in armed conflict against the sitting French king with the aim of taking the throne.
5) Thus, it argues that when that did happen in 1562 when Louis of Condé gathered troops in Orléans and declared their intentions to liberate King Charles IX from the evil councillors surrounding him, this had Calvin's fingerprints on it -- Calvin was to a significant degree responsible for this turn of events.
6) Calvin pursued this plan, I argue, as one of a number of approaches to winning France for the gospel. In this way, the volume explores Calvin's sense of vocation and the impact this had on his political thought.
In pursuing these matters, Dr Balserak provides a rigorous consideration of many of the individual places in Calvin’s corpus where he discusses accommodation. This enables him to set out a summary of the basic qualities which characterize Calvin’s handling of the motif. The addition of chapters on the relationship of Calvin’s thought on accommodation to his use of the potentia absoluta/ordinata distinction and on the influence of accommodation on his views on the truth and applicability of Scripture allows this study to examine its topic from different angles. The result is a work which offers a substantial reassessment of Calvin's thinking on divine accommodation.