Calvin by Bruce GordonPublication Date: 2009-07-21
During the French Renaissance, young John Calvin experienced a profound conversion to the faith of the Reformation. He lived out the implications of that and became a major figure of the Reformation. Calvin's vision of the Christian religion has inspired volumes of analysis, but this biography examines his life. Bruce Gordon presents Calvin as a man at once brilliant, arrogant, charismatic, unforgiving, generous, and shrewd. The book explores with particular insight Calvin's view of himself as prophet for his age and his struggle to tame a sense of his own superiority, perceived by others as arrogance.