Bibliographic Resources

for the Study of John Calvin

John Calvin 1509 - 1564

Title page of

commentary on

Seneca’s

De clementia

Jacques Lefèvre

d’Étaples

1460?-1536

Basel

Institutes of the Christian Religion - 1536

Geneva

Geneva

Political/Judicial/Ecclesiastical Structure of Geneva in Calvin’s Era

Small Council (25)4 Syndics

21 Council MembersMeets daily

General Council (all voting Genevans)Meet 2x/yr to ratify elections

Council of 200

Council of 60

Judicial officials

Civil and criminal cases.

Company of Pastors

Meets weekly

Consistory: Syndic presides, 11 Council members,

All the pastors (12+-)Meets weekly

Calvin the Polemicist

Calvin

the

Preacher

Sunday Sermons

1549 95 sermons on Acts 1-15 1552 94 sermons on Acts 16-28 1549 72 sermons on the Psalms 1553 15 sermons on Psalm 119 1554 46 sermons on 1 & 2

Thessalonians 1554 55 sermons on 1 Timothy

1555 31 sermons on 2 Timothy 1555 17 sermons on Titus 1555 110 sermons on 1 Corinthians 1557 66 sermons on 2 Corinthians 1558 48 sermons on Ephesians

Calvin’s Sermons Weekday Sermons

1549 271 sermons on Jeremiah (91 recorded)

1550 25 sermons on Lamentations 1550 28 sermons on Micah 1551 17 sermons on Zephaniah 1551 65 sermons on Hosea 1551 17 sermons on Joel 1551 43 sermons on Amos 1552 5 sermons on Obadiah 1552 6 sermons on Jonah (recorded) 1552 sermons on Nahum and

Habakkuk 1552 47 sermons on Daniel (recorded) 1552 174 sermons on Ezekiel 1554 159 sermons on Job 1555 200 sermons on Deuteronomy 1556 343 sermons on Isaiah 1559 123 sermons on Genesis

-----stenographer Raguenier dies-------

sermons on Judges 1561 107 sermons on 1 Samuel 1562 87 sermons on 2 Samuel

sermons on 1 Kings

Calvin

the

Biblical

Commentator

Calvin

the

Theologian

Institutes (1536) 6 chapters

Institutes (1539) 17 chapters

Institutes (1543 & 1545) 21 chapters

Institutes (1550)

Institutes (1559) 80 chapters

1509 - 1564

Calvinism’s Pluriform Roots

John Knox 1513-1572

Wolfgang Musculus 1497-

1563

Peter Martyr Vermigli 1500-

1562

Heinrich Bullinger 1504-

1575

Ulrich Zwingli 1484-1531

Theodore Beza 1519-1605

Bibliographic Resources:

Calvin’s Works – in Latin or French

Calvini opera (59 vols.)

Opera denuo (10 vols. + )

Opera selecta (5 vols.)

Supplementa Calviniana; sermons inedits (7 vols. +)

IDC Microfiche Collection

Recueil des opuscules – 1566 (1st ed)

Institutes Index and Browser (Wevers)

Calvin’s Works – Primarily in English

A Faythful and moost godlye treatyse concernynge the most sacret Sacrament . . London: John Day and William Seres, [1548?].

www.ccel.org

www.ccel.org/c/calvin

Commentaries

New Testament Commentaries

Institutes: Allen, Beveridge, Battles

Letters

Tracts and Treatises

Calvin in Context

Theodore Beza Correspondence

Emil Doumergue,

Jean Calvin: Les hommes et les choses de son temps

Registers of the Company of Pastors of Geneva

Registers of the Consistory of Geneva

Richard Gamble, ed., Articles on Calvin… (14 vols.)

Biographies-Bouwsma, Parker, Cottret, Ganoczy

Bibliographies – Fields (CTJ), Rodolphe, and de Greef

Bibliographies – Kempff and Bihary

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 4 vols. (1996)

Andrew Pettegree, ed.,The Reformation World (2000)

Richard A. Muller,

The Unaccommodated Calvin (2000)