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Reformed Historical Theology, Volume 25 : Calvin and the Independence of the Church
Overview: The author's work remains the only monograph-length study that offers a new, comprehensive perspective on Calvin's ecclesiological ideal in terms of the church's relationship to the government. Different from what many have argued, this ideal did not lie in a vision of the church as completely independent of the government or that had its own power of excommunication. Instead, Calvin advocated a very modest form of ecclesiastical independence, from which later Calvinists would diverge. Calvin's ideas and those of his followers differ in some respects, so that by the second half of the sixteenth century two Calvinist views of the Church had emerged.
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