Emancipating Calvin ― Culture and Confessional Identity in Francophone Reformed Communities

The essays in Emancipating Calvin: Culture and Confessional Identity in Francophone Reformed Communities demonstrate the vitality and variety of Francophone Reformed communities, examining how local contexts shaped the implementation of reforming ideas emanating from John Calvin and Geneva.

Erik A. de Boer, Ph.D. (Universite de Geneve 1999), is Professor for Church History at Theological University Kampen and Extraordinary Professor for Reformation History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has published on the Reformation including The Genevan School of the Prophets. The congregations of the Company of Pastors and its Influence in 16th Century Europe [Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance, vol 513] (Geneve: Librairie Droz, 2012).R. Ward Holder, Ph.D. (1998), Boston College, is Professor of Theology at Saint Anselm College. He has published on the Reformation, including John Calvin and the Grounding of Interpretation: Calvin’s First Commentaries (Brill, 2006), and Calvin in Context (Cambridge, 2019).Karen E. Spierling, Ph.D (2001), University of Wisconsin-Madion, is Associate Professor of History and Director of Global Commerce at Denison University. Her publications on the Genevan Reformation include Infant Baptism: The Shaping of a Community, 1536 – 1564 (Ashgate, 2005; Westminster John Knox, 2009) and the edited volume Calvin and the Book: The Evolution of the Printed Word in Reformed Protestantism (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015).