EXPLORING CALVIN’S LEGACY FOR TODAY

WORD AND SPIRIT CALVIN’S LEGACY RETRIEVING REFORMED TRADITION WORD AND SACRAMENT CALVIN AND BARTH: “THE HOLY BANQUET” EUCHARIST, FORMATION AND MISSION WORD AND IMAGE BARTH AND BALTHASAR: THE BEAUTY OF GOD ART AND CREATIVITY IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH

AS PRAYER AS SCIENCE AS CRITICAL REFLECTION AS ENGAGEMENT

 PRIORITY OF THE WORD  FAITH COMES BY HEARING  SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION  CONFESSIONS AND INTERPRETATION

 A FEAR OF TRADITION  TRADITION AS TRANSMISSION OF GOSPEL  THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION  TRADITION AND IDENTITY  TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION

 WHAT DOES HIS LEGACY/WORDS/ACTIONS MEAN TODAY?  WHAT DID CALVIN ACTUALLY SAY AND DO?  CRITICAL DIALOGUE WITH CALVIN  READING CALVIN WITH FRESH EYES

CALVIN, CALVINISTS & PURITANS TYRANT OF GENEVA NARROW-MINDED BIGOT ORIGINATOR OF PREDESTINATION EXECUTIONER OF SERVETUS PURITAN WITCHHUNTS CALVINISM & APARTHEID

 SOCIAL & POLITICALKorea  French Huguenots  Scotland & England  Holland  New England  THEOLOGICAL & ECCLESIASTICAL  Reformed theology  Reformed, Presbyerian, Congregational,  Church of England, Baptists

 ROMAN CATHOLIC  HISTORICAL  LITERARY  THEOLOGICAL

 EXPANSION  NATION STATES  PEASANT REVOLTS  RELIGIOUS FERMENT  THE RENAISSANCE 

 REFORM OF CHURCH AND SOCIETY  RETURN TO THE SOURCES ◦ LANGUAGES ◦ CLASSICAL TEXTS ◦ BIBLICAL TEXTS  RHETORIC  THE HUMANITIES

 BORN IN NOYON, FRANCE, JULY 1509  A DEVOUT ROMAN CATHOLIC  STUDENT IN HUMANITIES AT UNIVERSITY OF PARIS  UNIVERSITY OF ORLEANS TO STUDY LAW  COMMENTARY ON SENECA’S De Clementia (1532)  LUTHER’S EVANGELICAL TEACHING  THE FRENCH COURT AND ARISTOCRACY  EVANGELICAL CONVERSION (c. 1533)

 THE SWISS REFORMATION  CALVIN’S FIRST STAY IN GENEVA (1537-8) ◦ A REFORMING CITY ◦ FAREL ◦ CITY OF REFUGEES  STRASBOURG ◦ INFLUENCE OF MARTIN BUCER  Liturgy  Pastoral care  Ecumenical ◦ INFLUENCE OF ST. AUGUSTINE  Election/Predestination

 SOCIAL REFORMS ◦ REFUGEES ◦ THE POOR ◦ EDUCATION  CHURCH ORDINANCES ◦ PASTORS, ELDERS, DEACONS ◦ WORD & SACRAMENTS ◦ DISCIPLINE  DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH ◦ CATECHISM ◦ THE PREACHER ◦ BIBLE COMMENTARIES ◦ THE INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION

 BOOK I: KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND OURSELVES  BOOK II: CHRIST THE MEDIATOR  BOOK III: COME, HOLY SPIRIT  BOOK IV: THE CHURCH IS OUR MOTHER