Calvin and the Anabaptist Radicals.

CONTENTS:

PART ONE : HISTORICAL STUDY.
1. Early Contacts with the Anabaptists.
The Religious Currents in France.
Initial Anabaptist Contacts.
Calvin's Commentary on Seneca's De Clementia.
Psychopannychia.
— The Bibliographic Problem.
— The First Preface, Orléans, 1534.
— The Second Preface, Basel, 1536.
— The Theological Problem.
A Letter to Bucer in 1534.
The Stay at Basel.
Summary.

2. The Institutes of 1536.
The Letter to King Francis I.
The Polemic in the Institutes of 1536.
— Münster.
— The Church.
— The Judgment of Love.
— No Rigorism.
— The Sacraments.
— Holy Baptism.
— The Lord's Supper.
— Office and Liturgy.
— The Oath.
— The Attitude Toward the Government.
— Pacifism.
— Taxation and Jurisdiction.
— Lawful Resistance to Tyranny.
Summary.

3. Geneva 1536-1538.
The Situation in Geneva.
Contacts with Anabaptists.
Conflict.
Summary

4. The Institutes of 1539.
The Polemic in the Institutes of 1539.
— Word and Spirit.
— The Relationship Between the Old Testament and the New Testament.
— Infant Baptism.
— The Oath.
— The Sabbath.
— Predestination.
— Universalism and Chiliasm.
— The Visible Church.
— Perfectionism.
— Discipline.
Summary.

5. Strasbourg, 1538-1541..
The Situation in Strasbourg.
Contacts with Anabaptists.
Idelette de Bure.
Reply to Sadeleto.
Calvin and Paul Volz.
Calvin and the Bohemian Brethren.
Calvin and Bucer.
Conclusion.

6. The Institutes of 1543.
The Polemic in the Institutes of 1543.
— The Church Visible.
— Office.
— Discipline.
Summary

7. Geneva, 1541-1564.
Return to Geneva.
An Anabaptist Movement in Neuchâtel.
Calvin as Polemicist.
Calvin and the Confessio Schlattensis.
Lesser Contacts after.
Calvin and Menno.
Summary

8. The Institutes of 1559.
The Polemic in the Institutes of 1559.

PART TWO : SYSTEMATIC STUDY.

9. The Holiness and the Unity of the Church.
Holy Baptism.
Discipline.
Separatism.
Office.
Perfectionism.

10. Church and State.
The Oath.
The Government.
Communism.
Separation from the World.
Anarchism.
Pacifism.
Revolution and Resistance to Tyranny.
Chiliasm.

11. Other Controversies in Dogmatics.
The Incarnation.
The Doctrine of Soul Sleep.

12. Hermeneutics.
The Relationship Between the Old and the New Testaments.
The Sermon on the Mount.
Word and Spirit.