Émile Doumergue (1844–1937) was a French scholar of John Calvin who wrote the seven volume John Calvin: The Man and His Times, which was published between 1899 and 1927.[1][2] He was professor of ecclesiastical history at the Theology Faculty of Montauban from 1880 until 1919.[3]
Doumergue portrayed Calvin as the "founder of modern freedoms" and said that the areas where Calvinism was popular were also the areas where democracy established itself.[4][5]
Notes
edit- ^ Bruce Gordon, John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion: A Biography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), p. 100.
- ^ Patrick Cabanel, 'French Protestants and the Legacy of John Calvin: Reformer and Legislator', in Johan de Niet, Herman Paul and Bart Wallet (eds.), Sober, Strict, and Scriptural Collective Memories of John Calvin, 1800–2000 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), p. 53.
- ^ Cabanel, p. 52.
- ^ Mario Turchetti, 'The Contribution of Calvin and Calvinism to the Birth of Modern Democracy', in Martin Ernst Hirzel and Martin Sallmann (eds.), John Calvin's Impact on Church and Society, 1509–2009 (2009), p. 192.
- ^ C. Scott Dixon, Contesting the Reformation (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), p. 44.