[Vision2020] Calvin was a revolutionary!
Donovan Arnold
donovanarnold@hotmail.com
Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:50:29 -0800
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<P>No, he was not.<BR></P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>From: Nick Gier <NGIER@UIDAHO.EDU>
<DIV></DIV>>To: vision2020@moscow.com
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: [Vision2020] Calvin was a revolutionary!
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:48:56 -0800
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<DIV></DIV>>Visionaries and Lurkers:
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<DIV></DIV>>Even though I told me that he was all wet on defining
<DIV></DIV>>fundamentalism, I value Ed Sebasta's contribution to this public
<DIV></DIV>>forum. He has been an invaluable source of information about Wilson
<DIV></DIV>>and his neo-Confederate associates. So I thank him once again for
<DIV></DIV>>giving us a link to Elizabeth Fox-Genovese's new journal.
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<DIV></DIV>>Since Mr. and Mrs. Fox-Genovese are widely cited by the
<DIV></DIV>>neo-Confederates and NSA has invited her to speak, then we must
<DIV></DIV>>question once again Wilson's denials that he is not at all
<DIV></DIV>>associated with the neo-Confederacy. Perhaps one of us should send
<DIV></DIV>>the distinguished couple a copy of the slavery booklet and see what
<DIV></DIV>>they think of it. I doubt if Wilson will do that himself.
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<DIV></DIV>>I looked at the contents of "The Journal of the Historical Society"
<DIV></DIV>>and my initial impression is that it is a solid professional
<DIV></DIV>>journal. With regard to the recent "history" conference, one
<DIV></DIV>>article especially caught my eye. The theme of the conference
<DIV></DIV>>appeared to be that good Christians are reformers, but
<DIV></DIV>>revolutionaries are agents of the Devil. So take a look at what
<DIV></DIV>>Robert M. Kingdom says about Calvin the Revolutionary:
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<DIV></DIV>>"In the city-state of Geneva, the community whose history I know
<DIV></DIV>>best, the Protestant Reformation ranked as a revolution, and it
<DIV></DIV>>probably had the ingredients of revolution in many other areas as
<DIV></DIV>>well. In Geneva there can be little doubt that the Protestant
<DIV></DIV>>Reformation was a full revolution-in government, in society, and in
<DIV></DIV>>religion. It led to the destruction of one type of government and
<DIV></DIV>>its replacement with a new and radically different type of
<DIV></DIV>>government. Before the Reformation, the city of Geneva was the
<DIV></DIV>>capital of a large bishopric governed by the prince-bishop with the
<DIV></DIV>>assistance of the canons of his cathedral chapter; of certain agents
<DIV></DIV>>of the duchy of Savoy, the largest secular power in the area; and,
<DIV></DIV>>within the city, of a council of local merchants and lay
<DIV></DIV>>professionals."
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<DIV></DIV>>Nick Gier
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