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

by JenniferPowellMcNutt (Author), Jennifer Powell McNutt (Author), Jennifer Powell McNutt (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $158.31

  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.