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34 - Calvin and Luther

from Part V - Calvin’s Influences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2019

By
Christopher Boyd Brown
Edited by
R. Ward Holder
R. Ward Holder
Affiliation:
Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire
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Summary

The historical question of the personal and theological relationship between Martin Luther and John Calvin has long been freighted with larger questions of Evangelical identity. Calvin, in his published and epistolary rhetoric, deliberately constructed the image of a positive but critical attitude toward Luther, which he used to establish his own place in the Reformation. Luther’s own positive but qualified opinion of Calvin, however, came to be distorted by transmission by different parties in the theological disputes of the succeeding generation.1

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correspondenceLord’s Supperlocal presenceNicodemitesenthusiasmpredestination
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John Calvin in Context , pp. 299 - 309
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Suggested Further Readings

Gerrish, B. A. “John Calvin on Luther.” In Interpreters of Luther: Essays in Honor of Wilhelm Pauk, ed. Pelikan, Jaroslav. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1968, 67–96.Google Scholar
Gordon, Bruce. “Martin Luther and John Calvin.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther, ed. Nelson, Derek R. and Hinlicky, Paul. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.313.Google Scholar
Holder, R. Ward, ed. Calvin and Luther: The Continuing Relationship. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Meinhold, Peter. “Calvin und Luther,” Lutherische Monatschefte 3: 6 (1964): 264–269.Google Scholar
Selderhuis, Herman J. “Luther and Calvin.” In Martin Luther: A Christian between Reforms and Modernity (1517–2017), ed. Melloni, Alberto. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017, 1: 401–416.Google Scholar

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