A Life of John Calvin
A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture
by Alister E. McGrath
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The first biography of John Calvin since 1975 and the only life of the great reformer to analyse his impact on subsequent generations of theologians, politicians, economists and philosophers. This biography is theologically unbiased and is written as much for historians and general readers as for those interested in Calvin the Church reformer....
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