Calvin Meets Voltaire: The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, 1685-1798

By Jennifer Powell McNutt

Eighteenth-century Geneva offers a fascinating glimpse into the encounter between the Reformation and the Enlightenment in the figurative meeting of Calvin and Voltaire. This research supports a revisionist understanding of religion and the Enlightenment, moves beyond a simplistic paradigm of 'decline' and secularization, and highlights how Geneva's French connection ultimately uprooted a society still largely committed to its Protestant-Reformation origins.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409424413
• ISBN13: 9781409424413
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"