Calvin Meets Voltaire: The Clergy Of Geneva In The Age Of Enlightenment, 1685?798

Eighteenth-century Geneva offers a fascinating glimpse into the encounter between the Reformation and the Enlightenment in the figurative meeting of Calvin and Voltaire. This research supports a revisionist understanding of religion and the Enlightenment, moves beyond a simplistic paradigm of 'decline' and secularization, and highlights how Geneva's French connection ultimately uprooted a society still largely committed to its Protestant-Reformation origins.

• • Author: Dr Jennifer Powell McNutt
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Jan 24, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 374 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1409424413
• • ISBN-13: 9781409424413