Stefan Zweig contre Calvin (1936)
Zweig's Castellion versus Calvin, published in May 1936, depicts the heroic figure of the intellectual fighting by the sheer force of his pen against the despot. If Zweig chose Calvin to stand indirectly for Hitler, it was because his combat had crossed paths with that of the pastor Jean Schore...
| Published in: | Revue de l'histoire des religions |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Review |
| Language: | French |
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| Published: |
Colin
2006
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| In: |
Revue de l'histoire des religions
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| Review of: | Castellio gegen Calvin / Stefan Zweig (Lestringant, Frank) |
| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CG Christianity and Politics KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Resistance
B Book review B Dictatorship |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | Zweig's Castellion versus Calvin, published in May 1936, depicts the heroic figure of the intellectual fighting by the sheer force of his pen against the despot. If Zweig chose Calvin to stand indirectly for Hitler, it was because his combat had crossed paths with that of the pastor Jean Schorer who, in Geneva itself, was at the head of the liberal protestant crusade against the heritage of Calvinist orthodoxy. Without realising it, Zweig thus added his name to a line of anti-protestant writers, from Montaigne and Voltaire, via Balzac, whom he quotes at length through, to Joseph de Maistre, for whom Revolution and Reformation, Terror and Protestantism, went hand in hand. Hence what Zweig saw as Calvinism's "strange metamorphosis" into a school of individual freedom and democracy, in the era of the rise of dictatorships across Europe. |
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| ISSN: | 0765-6521 |
| Contains: | In: Revue de l'histoire des religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4000/rhr.4623 |