bibliographic resources for the study of john calvin
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Bibliographic Resources
for the Study of John Calvin
John Calvin 1509 - 1564
Title page of
commentary on
Seneca’s
De clementia
Jacques Lefèvre
d’Étaples
1460?-1536
Basel
Institutes of the Christian Religion - 1536
Geneva
Geneva
Political/Judicial/Ecclesiastical Structure of Geneva in Calvin’s Era
Small Council (25)4 Syndics
21 Council MembersMeets daily
General Council (all voting Genevans)Meet 2x/yr to ratify elections
Council of 200
Council of 60
Judicial officials
Civil and criminal cases.
Company of Pastors
Meets weekly
Consistory: Syndic presides, 11 Council members,
All the pastors (12+-)Meets weekly
Calvin the Polemicist
Calvin
the
Preacher
Sunday Sermons
1549 95 sermons on Acts 1-15 1552 94 sermons on Acts 16-28 1549 72 sermons on the Psalms 1553 15 sermons on Psalm 119 1554 46 sermons on 1 & 2
Thessalonians 1554 55 sermons on 1 Timothy
1555 31 sermons on 2 Timothy 1555 17 sermons on Titus 1555 110 sermons on 1 Corinthians 1557 66 sermons on 2 Corinthians 1558 48 sermons on Ephesians
Calvin’s Sermons Weekday Sermons
1549 271 sermons on Jeremiah (91 recorded)
1550 25 sermons on Lamentations 1550 28 sermons on Micah 1551 17 sermons on Zephaniah 1551 65 sermons on Hosea 1551 17 sermons on Joel 1551 43 sermons on Amos 1552 5 sermons on Obadiah 1552 6 sermons on Jonah (recorded) 1552 sermons on Nahum and
Habakkuk 1552 47 sermons on Daniel (recorded) 1552 174 sermons on Ezekiel 1554 159 sermons on Job 1555 200 sermons on Deuteronomy 1556 343 sermons on Isaiah 1559 123 sermons on Genesis
-----stenographer Raguenier dies-------
sermons on Judges 1561 107 sermons on 1 Samuel 1562 87 sermons on 2 Samuel
sermons on 1 Kings
Calvin
the
Biblical
Commentator
Calvin
the
Theologian
Institutes (1536) 6 chapters
Institutes (1539) 17 chapters
Institutes (1543 & 1545) 21 chapters
Institutes (1550)
Institutes (1559) 80 chapters
1509 - 1564
Calvinism’s Pluriform Roots
John Knox 1513-1572
Wolfgang Musculus 1497-
1563
Peter Martyr Vermigli 1500-
1562
Heinrich Bullinger 1504-
1575
Ulrich Zwingli 1484-1531
Theodore Beza 1519-1605
Bibliographic Resources:
Calvin’s Works – in Latin or French
Calvini opera (59 vols.)
Opera denuo (10 vols. + )
Opera selecta (5 vols.)
Supplementa Calviniana; sermons inedits (7 vols. +)
IDC Microfiche Collection
Recueil des opuscules – 1566 (1st ed)
Institutes Index and Browser (Wevers)
Calvin’s Works – Primarily in English
A Faythful and moost godlye treatyse concernynge the most sacret Sacrament . . London: John Day and William Seres, [1548?].
www.ccel.org
www.ccel.org/c/calvin
Commentaries
New Testament Commentaries
Institutes: Allen, Beveridge, Battles
Letters
Tracts and Treatises
Calvin in Context
Theodore Beza Correspondence
Emil Doumergue,
Jean Calvin: Les hommes et les choses de son temps
Registers of the Company of Pastors of Geneva
Registers of the Consistory of Geneva
Richard Gamble, ed., Articles on Calvin… (14 vols.)
Biographies-Bouwsma, Parker, Cottret, Ganoczy
Bibliographies – Fields (CTJ), Rodolphe, and de Greef
Bibliographies – Kempff and Bihary
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 4 vols. (1996)
Andrew Pettegree, ed.,The Reformation World (2000)
Richard A. Muller,
The Unaccommodated Calvin (2000)