Vitandis Superstitionibus Quae Cum Sincera by Calvin Jean (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4to (210 x 140 mm), late 19th century half vellum, boards covered with coloured paper, title in gold on brown morocco label at spine; 18th century wrappers preserved inside, some foxing at the upper margin of few leaves at end, generally a wide, clean copy with some early underlines and a few marginal annotations. Signatures: a-r4; pages 135, [1]. First Latin edition. The book includes also an important text printed originally in French as 'Petit Traicté e la Excuse a messieurs les Nicodemites', Geneva: 1544. "The Excuse belongs to the group of treatises written against sectarians, and it is one of Calvin's most notorious and debated works. The term 'Nicodemites, chosen by Calvin, have a scriptural origin in the figure of Nicodemus, the Pharisee who believed in Jesus but visited him only by night out of fear (John 3:1-15) and did not dare to manifest his faith in public. Calvin used the word 'Nicodemites' to condemn and stigmatize those Christian who, following the example of Nicodemus, had embraced true religion (i.e. the Reformed one) but were too scared to show it publicly and lived in secret, disguising their true beliefs. Calvin's polemic against such men was much older, however, and by this time entrenched: it had started already in 1537 [.] Calvin's works, moreover, were not isolated but inserted in a larger debate on religious dissimulation". Apud Federico Zuliani, "The Other Nicodemus: Nicodemus in Italian Religious Writings Previous and Contemporary to Calvin's Excuse à Messieurs les Nicodémites (1544)", Discovering the Riches of the Word. Religious Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Leiden, Brill, 2015. Adams, C-341; Bibl. Gebennensis, n° 49/9; Bibliotheca Calviniana, n. 49/5; Calvin (Expos. 1935), n. 268; Droz, Chemins, t. 1, p. 151; Erichson, Calviniana, p. 8; Haag-Bordier, t. 3, col. 585, n. XIX.

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