Friends of Calvin

Berg, Machiel A. van den

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

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Calvin, Jean -- 1509-1564
Friends and associates

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