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The Transmission and Translation of the Collected Letters of John Calvin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Douglas Kelly
Affiliation:
Presbyterian Manse Dillon South Carolina 29536

Extract

John Calvin was a prolific writer of letters. He carried on an increasingly large correspondence from his early life as an obscure student of law in Orleans (1528), to his last days of international renown as master theologian, patriarch and oracle of Protestantism (d. 1564). With the incessant demands on his time as preacher, professor, author, statesman, and pastor—not to mention his poor health and personal trials—one is amazed at the sheer amount of letters he wrote.

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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1977

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