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

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Calvin Meets Voltaire: The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, 1685-1798 - McNutt, Jennifer Powell
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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, and highlights how GenevaOCOs French connection ultimately uprooted a society still largely committed to its Protestant-Reformation origins."

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