Calvin and the Resignification of the World: Creation, Incarnation, and the Problem of Political Theology in the 1559 'Institutes'

ISBN-13: 9781108473040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 328 str.

Michelle Chaplin Sanchez

Opis

Provides the first extended study of Calvin's 1559 Institutio in conversation with critical theorists of religion, modernity, sovereignty, and political theology.

Recenzje

'Calvin scholars and readers interested in how Reformation sources might interact with contemporary political theology will find Sanchez' book to be important and vital reading.' Aaron Klink, Religious Studies Review

Spis treści

Part I. Itinerant Pedagogy: 1. Writing reform: the genre of the 1559 Institutio Christianae Religionis; Part II. Providence: 2. The practice of writing providence; 3. Providence and world affirmation; 4. Providence and governmentality; Part III. Incarnation: 5. Calvin's 'secularization' of Augustinian signification; 6. Faith resignifying understanding: atonement and election; 7. Calvin against political theology.