Calvin meets Voltaire : the clergy of Geneva during the age of enlightenment, 1685-1798 / Jennifer Powell McNutt.
2013
BX9424.5.S9 P694 2013eb
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Calvin meets Voltaire : the clergy of Geneva during the age of enlightenment, 1685-1798 / Jennifer Powell McNutt.
Author
McNutt, Jennifer Powell.
ISBN
9781472419323 (electronic book)
9781409424413
9781472419330 (electronic book)
9781409424413
9781472419330 (electronic book)
Published
Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, 2013.
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©2013
Language
English
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1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations
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BX9424.5.S9 P694 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
284/.2494516
Summary
Eighteenth-century Geneva offers a fascinating glimpse into the encounter between the Reformation and the Enlightenment in the figurative meeting of Calvin and Voltaire. This research supports a revisionist understanding of religion and the Enlightenment, moves beyond a simplistic paradigm of ""decline"" and secularization, and highlights how Geneva's French connection ultimately uprooted a society still largely committed to its Protestant-Reformation origins.
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Table of Contents
Geneva and the Revisionist Enlightenment
1 The "Mother Church" of a New Era
2 Clerical Demographics and Duties
3 Clerical Jeremiads and Renunciations
4 Ministers and Philosophes
5 Reasonable Calvinism: From the Pulpit to the Pew
6 Clergy and the Work of State-Building
Conclusion: The French Connection
Appendix 1: City Pastors and Ordained Professors (1685-1798)
Appendix 2: Agrégé Pastors (1685-1798)
Appendix 3: "Renouncing" Ministers (1685-1798)
Index
1 The "Mother Church" of a New Era
2 Clerical Demographics and Duties
3 Clerical Jeremiads and Renunciations
4 Ministers and Philosophes
5 Reasonable Calvinism: From the Pulpit to the Pew
6 Clergy and the Work of State-Building
Conclusion: The French Connection
Appendix 1: City Pastors and Ordained Professors (1685-1798)
Appendix 2: Agrégé Pastors (1685-1798)
Appendix 3: "Renouncing" Ministers (1685-1798)
Index