Throughout the years, biographers have depicted John Calvin in manifold ways. Serene Jones takes a fresh look at Calvin as she draws a compelling portrait of Calvin as artist, engaged in the classical art of rhetoric. According to Jones, this art was used knowingly and skillfully by Calvin to persuade and challenge his diverse audiences. Thus Jones offers a rhetorical reading or the first three chapters of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. What emerges is a truly original interpretation of Calvin and his work.
The Columbia Series in Reformed Theology represents a joint commitment by Columbia Theological Seminary and Westminster John Knox Press to provide theological resources from the Reformed tradition for the church today. This series examines theological and ethical issues that confront church and society in our own particular time and place.
- ISBN10 0664220703
- ISBN13 9780664220709
- Publish Date 1 February 1996 (first published 21 November 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 13 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English