Religion

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  Jean CALVIN

  Commentariorum in acta apostolorum liber primus

  Series II. Opera exegetica

  Librairie Droz | Ioannis Calvini Opera Omnia n° 1

  This book contains the first part of Calvin’s commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. As usual, Helmut Feld offers the reader an excellent and precise edition, assembling all the patristic and contemporary sources for this major...

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  Wilhelmus H. Th. MOEHN

  "God Calls us to his Service" : The Relation between God and his Audience in Calvin's Sermons on Acts

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 345

  De 1549 à 1551, Jean Calvin prêchait le dimanche à partir des Actes des apôtres : c’est une part importante de ces sermons qu’étudie de manière détaillée W. Moehn. Plutôt qu’un dogmaticien rigoriste, c’est un orateur attentif à son auditoire qui se...

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  La Vie de saint Alexis

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  The main source used in this edition is the Hildesheim Psalter (L), the most complete manuscript. A metrical, linguistic, hagiographic and literary analysis retraces the history of saint Alexis’ life from its Latin model to the late revision of the...

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  Jean-François GILMONT, Peter RODOLPHE

  Bibliotheca Calviniana : les oeuvres de Jean Calvin publiées au XVIe siècle

  III, Ecrits théologiques, littéraires et juridiques : 1565-1600

  Librairie Droz | Bibliotheca Calviniana n° 339

  The third volume of the Bibliotheca calviniana presents the works of Calvin published after his death in the year 1564. This volume is essential for the understanding of the success of Calvin’s works with Anglo-Saxon, German and Dutch readers. It...

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  Jean CALVIN

  Sermons sur la Genèse, chapitres 1 à 20,4 (Supplementa Calviniana, XI/1-2)

  Neukirchener Verlag | Varia

  This is the first edition of John Calvin's ninety-six sermons on Genesis preached in Geneva from the 4th of September 1559 to the 15th of May 1560. Copious annotations give many references to Calvin's own works, other biblical commentaries and...

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  Jean CALVIN

  La Famine spirituelle : sermon inédit sur Esaïe 55, 1-2

  (Eglise française de Londres, Ms. VIII. f. 2, f° 538r°-543v°)

  Librairie Droz | Varia

  This is a foretaste of the complete critical edition of the eighty-seven sermons of Jean Calvin that the editor discovered in London in 1995. It presents a sermon dated July 1558 on the beginning of Isaiah 55. An English translation, notes and a...

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  Claude HOPIL

  Méditations sur le Cantique des cantiques

  et Les Douces Extases de l'âme spirituelle

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Recognized as one of the most important baroque poets of his time (1600-1630) Claude Hopil entrusted to prose his unrelenting quest of God. In this work he brings one of the most famous biblical poems to light: the Song of Songs. It is followed by a...

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  Robert CHALLE

  Difficultés sur la religion proposées au père Malebranche

  Edition nouvelle d'après le manuscrit complet et fidèle de la Staatsbibliothek de Munich

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  The novelty of this critical edition is to recall the biographical and spiritual itinerary that drove the author from a devout Catholicism to rationalismthrough an unknown...

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  Jean CALVIN

  Commentarius in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos

  Series II. Opera exegetica

  Librairie Droz | Ioannis Calvini Opera Omnia

  This is a masterly edition of the first biblical commentary of John Calvin, so important for the understanding of the period and of his...

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  WAUCHIER DE DENAIN

  La Vie mon signeur seint Nicholas le beneoit confessor

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  The examination of the "Vie mon signeur seint Nicholas", part of Wauchier de Denain's collection, "Li seint confessor", has led to the discovery of the early thirteenth-century translator's library of source material. The notes to this critical...