Friends of Calvin
Machiel A. van den Berg
- U.S.A. William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 2009
- 266tr. Paperback, illustrations 23 cm
In two dozen short, readable biographies of John Calvin's friends -- including some who turned into enemies -- Machiel A. van den Berg paints an intimate portrait of the great Reformer's life and circle that most of us have never seen. Here , we meet his famous Reformer friends -- William Farel, Martin Bucer, Philip Melanchthon, Heinrich Bullinger, John Knox, Theodore Beza -- and friends whose names are more obscure: his cousin Pierre Robert Olivétan, the first translator of the Bible into French