Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on sources, orthography, notes and translations
- Introduction
- 1 The training of a lawgiver
- 2 The Institution: the first version
- 3 The first public ministry
- 4 Reconstruction
- 5 The Institution of 1543
- 6 Geneva and Calvin, 1541–64
- 7 The civil order of a Christian commonwealth
- 8 Political morality in the thought of Calvin
- 9 The laws and mores of a Christian commonwealth
- 10 Unfinished business: a speculative summary and postscript
- Appendix I Calvin's conversion
- Appendix II Predestination
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on sources, orthography, notes and translations
- Introduction
- 1 The training of a lawgiver
- 2 The Institution: the first version
- 3 The first public ministry
- 4 Reconstruction
- 5 The Institution of 1543
- 6 Geneva and Calvin, 1541–64
- 7 The civil order of a Christian commonwealth
- 8 Political morality in the thought of Calvin
- 9 The laws and mores of a Christian commonwealth
- 10 Unfinished business: a speculative summary and postscript
- Appendix I Calvin's conversion
- Appendix II Predestination
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
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- The Christian Polity of John Calvin , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1982