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Article: Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: a Social History of Calvinism.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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by Philip Benedict. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2002. xxvi, 670 pp. $50.00 US (cloth)
Philip Benedict has provided an invaluable synthesis of the history of Calvinism from its origins to 1700 in all its geographical settings. A pre-eminent scholar on the history of Reformed Christianity, Benedict deftly describes, in the first of four parts of this book, the formation of this religious tradition. Born in Zurich and inspired by the preaching of Huldrych Zwingli, Reformed Christianity showed already in the 1520s traits that distinguished it from the Reformation of Martin Luther: a more austere form of worship service, stripped of all traditions ...