John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait

New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Ink underlining and marginalia, some pages dog-eared, jacket a bit toned. 1987 Hard Cover. Frenchman, an exile, and a humanist in the tradition of Erasmus, Calvin was unusually sensitive to the complexities and contradictions of later Renaissance culture. The Calvin who emerges from this eloquent study is a surprisingly human, more plausible, more ecumenical, and often sympathetic figure, whose achievement was both more and less than -- and at the same time quite different from -- the way it has commonly been portrayed.