Bibliographic Resources for the Study of John Calvin

John Calvin

Title page of commentary on Seneca’s De clementia

Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples 1460?-1536

Basel

Institutes of the Christian Religion

Geneva

Political/Judicial/Ecclesiastical Structure of Geneva in Calvin’s Era Small Council (25) 4 Syndics 21 Council Members Meets daily General Council (all voting Genevans) Meet 2x/yr to ratify elections Council of 200 Council of 60 Judicial officials Civil and criminal cases. Company of Pastors Meets weekly Consistory: Syndic presides, 11 Council members, All the pastors (12+-) Meets weekly

Calvin the Polemicist

Calvin the Preacher

Sunday Sermons sermons on Acts sermons on Acts sermons on the Psalms sermons on Psalm sermons on 1 & 2 Thessalonians sermons on 1 Timothy sermons on 2 Timothy sermons on Titus sermons on 1 Corinthians sermons on 2 Corinthians sermons on Ephesians Calvin’s Sermons Weekday Sermons sermons on Jeremiah (91 recorded) sermons on Lamentations sermons on Micah sermons on Zephaniah sermons on Hosea sermons on Joel sermons on Amos sermons on Obadiah sermons on Jonah (recorded) 1552sermons on Nahum and Habakkuk sermons on Daniel (recorded) sermons on Ezekiel sermons on Job sermons on Deuteronomy sermons on Isaiah sermons on Genesis -----stenographer Raguenier dies sermons on Judges sermons on 1 Samuel sermons on 2 Samuel sermons on 1 Kings

Calvin the Biblical Commentator

Calvin the Theologian Institutes (1536) 6 chapters Institutes (1539)17 chapters Institutes (1543 & 1545)21 chapters Institutes (1550) Institutes (1559)80 chapters

Calvinism’s Pluriform Roots John Knox Wolfgang Musculus Peter Martyr Vermigli Heinrich Bullinger Ulrich Zwingli Theodore Beza

Bibliographic Resources: Calvin’s Works – in Latin or French

Calvini opera (59 vols.) Opera denuo (10 vols. + ) Opera selecta (5 vols.)

Supplementa Calviniana; sermons inedits (7 vols. +)

IDC Microfiche Collection

Recueil des opuscules – 1566 (1 st ed)

Institutes Index and Browser (Wevers)

Calvin’s Works – Primarily in English A Faythful and moost godlye treatyse concernynge the most sacret Sacrament.. London: John Day and William Seres, [1548?].

Commentaries

New Testament Commentaries

Institutes: Allen, Beveridge, Battles

Letters

Tracts and Treatises

Calvin in Context

Theodore Beza Correspondence

Emil Doumergue, Jean Calvin: L es hommes et les choses de son temps

Registers of the Company of Pastors of Geneva

Registers of the Consistory of Geneva

Richard Gamble, ed., Articles on Calvin… (14 vols.)

Biographies- Bouwsma, Parker, Cottret, Ganoczy

Bibliographies – Fields (CTJ), Rodolphe, and de Greef

Bibliographies – Kempff and Bihary

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 4 vols. (1996) Andrew Pettegree, ed., The Reformation World (2000)

Richard A. Muller, The Unaccommodated Calvin (2000)