Calvin for the World

Rubén Rosario Rodríguez (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary), an ordained Presbyterian minister, holds the Clarence Louis and Helen Steber Professorship in Theological Studies and directs the Mev Puleo Program in Latin American Politics, Theology, and Culture at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. His recent publications include Dogmatics after Babel, the T&T Clark Handbook of Political Theology, and Theological Fragments: Confessing What We Know and Cannot Know about an Infinite God. He has also done advocacy work with Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates (MIRA).

• Introduction: Why Calvin? Why Now?1. Calvin's Theology of Public LifeThe Biblical Foundations of GovernanceCalvin on Civil GovernmentThe Reception of Calvin's Political Thought2. Calvin, Proto-liberationist?Understanding Latin American Liberation TheologyThe Pastoral Praxis of Archbishop RomeroJohn Calvin's Emancipatory Theology3. The Undocumented CalvinRefugees in GenevaA Theology of ExileCalvinist Missionaries in Sixteenth-Century BrazilThe Reformed Tradition's Migratory Identity4. Calvin's Vision for an Ecumenical and Transnational ChurchCalvin's "High" Ecclesiology and the Idolatry of RomeThe Promise of Communion EcclesiologyPlural Ministries in Calvin's EcclesiologyMartin Bucer's Influence on Calvin's Ecclesiology5. The Cosmopolitan Calvin and Religious IntoleranceThe Question of Religious TolerationJews and Muslims in the Protestant ReformationThe Case of Michael ServetusChristianity and the Problem of Other Religions6. A Scattered Inheritance--Calvin's Reception in Latin AmericaUnderstanding the Latin American ContextProtestantism and Democracy in Latin AmericaPresbyterian Missions in Latin AmericaCotton Mather's Spanish Catechism7. Calvin against Apartheid CalvinismBlack Resistance to ApartheidCalvin's Role in the Church StrugglesSacramental Theology and Human LiberationConclusionIndexes