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Thirty Years of Calvin Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

John T. McNeill
John T. McNeill
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Union Theological Seminary, New York City
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Since the close of World War I the study of Calvin has been advanced by the labors of many scholars. This article presents a classified bibliography of what in the writer's judgment are the materials of chief importance in this enlarging field of research. A similar treatment of the historical literature concerned with the Reformed churches of Europe to the opening of the Thirty Years' War is in preparation.

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Research Article
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Church History , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , September 1948 , pp. 207 - 240
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1948

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* Only a few references can be made to the numerous works of bibliographical guidance in which I have found help. Schottenloher's, Karlstandard Biblographie zur deutschen Geschichte im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung, 1517–1585 (Leipzig, 1933–1940)Google Scholar, offers in Volumes I and II (Personen) and in Volume V (Nachträge) a reasonably comprehensive listing of Calvin materials to 1940. Indexes and lists in the following publications have also been helpful in identifying titles: Theologische Literaturzcitung (Leipzig); Bibliographisches Beiblait der Theologisehen Literaturzeitung (Leipzig); Theologische Rundschau (Tübingen); Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique (Louvain); Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte (Gotha); Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (Halle); Church History (Hartford, Conn.); Revue historique (Paris); Bulletin de la sociéié de l'histoire du protestantisme français (Paris); Revue d'histoire et de philosophic religicuses (Strasbourg). The last-named journal is so frequently referred to below that the reader will he asked to recognize it by the abbreviation RHPR. In volume XXV (1945), 1–94,Google Scholar it has a classified index for the years 1921–45. A number of bibliographical articles call for mention. Robert Centilevre reports critically on major studies of the 'twenties in “Ouvrages récents sur Calvin,’ RHPR, XVI (1928), 283–99.Google ScholarBarth's, Peter “Pünfundzwanzig Jahre Calvinforschung, 1909–1934” Theologische Rundschau, Neue Fotge, VI (1934), 161–75, 246–67,Google Scholar has a selection of German and Freneh materials for the greater part of our period. August Lang has reviewed some notable books of the early 'thirties in “Recent German Books on Calvin,” Evangelical Quarterly, VI (1934), 64–81.Google ScholarParker's, T. H. L. article “A Bibliography and Survey of the British Study of Calvin, 1900–1940,” Evangelical Quarterly, XVIII (1946), 123–31,Google Scholar and Frewer's, Louis B.Bibliography of Historical Writings Published in Great Britain arid the Empire, 1940–1945 (Oxford, 1947),Google Scholar have been profitably consulted. The periodical, Social Science A bstracts (Mena.sha, Wis., 1928–32), has numerous references. Three titles which furnish very limited bibliographical guidance on Calvin may be added: Case, Shirley Jackson and Others, A Bibliographical Giside t the History of Christianity (Chicago, 1931)Google Scholar; Bainton, Roland H., Bibliography of the Continental Reformation; Materials Available in English (Chicago, 1935)Google Scholar; Craig, Hardin, Recent Literature on the Renaissance (University of North Carolina Studies in Philology, XLIV, Chapel Hill, 1947), 265–452,Google Scholar “The French Renaissance,” by Samuel F. Will and W. L. Wiley, the Catologue général of the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Catalogue of Printed Books of the Library of the British Mu.seuin, and the card index of the Library of Congress have also been of service.

Only published materials are here included. A list of unpublished theses for the degrees of M.A., B.D., Ph.D. and Th.D. on topics in church history and historical theology, available in American university and seminary libraries, is being compiled by Donald Herbert Yoder. It will contain a fair number of titles for Calvin and Calvinism.