History 2P91: International Protestantism: Calvinism

Luther wasn't the only reformer with ideas on how the church ought to be changed.  Over the course of the 1530s many sought to develop and further the positions he and zwingli, among others, put forward.  One of these individuals was John Calvin.  Calvin's approach to reform was much more systematic and legalistic.  Based in Geneva Calvin and his followers developed a network of correspondence and book and preacher smuggling across Europe.  The aim was the development of an International Protestantism - and with it 'Reformed' Theology with a reformed christianity.  Outside of the bounds of Lutheran influence, Calvinism would come to play a critical role in the second 'stage' of the Reformation.  It was the creation of a new 'orthodoxy' in the face of the development of a concerted or focused 'catholic' identity at the Council of Trent happening largely at the same time.

Additional Reading Lists

• F. L. Battles ed., John Calvin (Abingdon: Sutton Courtenay Press, 1966).
• Philip Benedict, Rouen during the Wars of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
• Elizabeth A. Boran, Enforcing Reformation in Ireland And Scotland, 1550-1700 (: , ).
• William J. Bouwsma, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).
• Thomas A. Brady, Turning Swiss: Cities and Empire, 1450-1550 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
• Barbara B. Diefendorf, Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
• Janine Garrisson, Protestants du Midi (1559-1598) (Toulouse: Privat, 1980).
• P. Geisendorf, Métiers et conditions sociales du premier refuge à Genève (Geneva: Droz, 1963).
• Mark Greengrass, The French Reformation (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987).
• Francis Higman, Calvin's works in translation, ed. Andrew Pettegree, Alastair Duke and Gillian Lewis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
• Robert M. Kingdon, 'Calvin and the establishment of consistory discipline in Geneva: the institution and the men who directed it,' Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis 70 (1990): 158-172.
• Robert M. Kingdon, 'Calvin and the Government of Geneva', in Calvinus ecclesiae Genevensis custos, ed. W. H. Neusner (Frankfurt: , 1984), 49-67.
• Robert M. Kingdon, Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France, 1555-1563 (Geneva: Droz, 1956).
• Alastair E. McGrath, A Life of John Calvin (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990).
• John T. McNeill, The History and Character of Calvinism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1954).
• William Monter, Calvin's Geneva (New York: John Wiley, 1967).
• Bodo Nischan, Prince, People, and Confession: The Second Reformation in Brandenburg (: , ).
• Andrew Pettegree, Alastair Duke & Gillian Lewis ed., Calvinism in Europe, 1540-1620 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
• Ronald Po-Chia Hsia, Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe 1550-1750 (London: , 1989).
• M. Prestwich ed., International Calvinism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985).
• Matthew Reynolds, Godly Reformers And Their Opponents in Early Modern England: Religion in Norwich c. 1560-1643 (: , ).
• Penny Roberts, A city in conflict: Troyes during the French wars of religion (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996).
• J. M. Salmon, Society in Crisis: France in the Sixteenth Century (London: Ernest Benn, 1975).
• J. Stalnaker, 'Anabaptism, Martin Bucer, and the shaping of the Hessian Protestant church,' Journal of Modern History (): .
• N. M. Sutherland, The Huguenot Struggle for Recognition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980).
• Larissa Taylor, Soldiers of Christ: Preaching in Late Medieval and Reformation France (: , ).
• Jeffrey Watt, 'Women and the consistory in Calvin's Geneva', in , ed. (: , 1993), 429-439.

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