Theology of John Calvin

by Karl Barth

Book Overview

This historically significant volume collects Karl Barth's lectures on John Calvin, delivered at the University of G ttingen in 1922. The book opens with an illuminating sketch of medieval theology, an appreciation of Luther's breakthrough, and a comparative study of the roles of Zwingli and Calvin. The main body of the work consists of an increasingly sympathetic, and at times amusing, account of Calvin's life up to his recall to Geneva. In the process,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802806961
• ISBN13: 9780802806963
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"