Opera omnia, Volume IV/4 Scripta didactica et polemica 4: Epistolae duae (1537) - Deux discours (Oct. 1536). Édité par Erik Alexander de Boer et Frans Peter van Stam

CALVIN, JEAN

ISBN 10: 2600012869 / ISBN 13: 9782600012867

Published by Genève, Droz 2009, 2009

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Hardcover, LXXXIII, 160 p.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Opera omnia, Volume IV/4 Scripta didactica et polemica 4: Epistolae duae (1537) - Deux discours (Oct. 1536). Édité par Erik Alexander de Boer et Frans Peter van Stam
• Publisher: Genève, Droz 2009
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 2600012869
• ISBN 13: 9782600012867
• Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis

These two public letters are Calvin's first publication for a wider audience since his arrival in Geneva. Its preface is dated on 12 January 1537. After years of scholarly activity and travelling in anonymity, Guillaume Farel forcefully committed him to the church of Geneva. The young author of the Institutes (1536) was at Farel's and Viret's side at the Disputatio of Lausanne. The contents of the Epistolae duae, drafted in Ferrara, reveal that Calvin must have revised the manuscript to give testimony to the appeal of the Disputation to the Roman Catholic clergy. The first letter challenges Christians to break away from idolatry and confess publicly. The second letter is a challenge to the clergy either to reform or lay down their offices. Calvin's two minor contributions to the Disputation of Lausanne have been added to the present edition. French and Latin text.