Calvin and the Christian Tradition: Scripture, Memory, and the Western Mind. R. Ward Holder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvi + 296 pp. $99.99

• Published in: Renaissance quarterly Vol. 76; no. 4; pp. 1551 - 1553
• Main Author: McKim, Donald
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.12.2023
• Subjects: Christianity; Evangelicalism; Exegesis & hermeneutics; Theology; Traditions

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvi + 296 pp. $99.99. [...]the actual Calvin can be proven to depend upon tradition in greater and more profound manners than even he recognized” (7). Amidst the host of choices and divisions that marked early modern life in Calvin's times—“Protestan...