Calvinism in History

Calvinism in History contains six lectures on Calvinism delivered at the Wakefield Presbyterian Church in Germantown, Pennsylvania by Nathaniel S. McFetridge. These lectures were composed in the context of leisure reading and regular pastoral duties, as well as within the author’s self-acknowledged debt to the works and teaching of A.A. Hodge. This volume contains four lectures on Calvinism, covering politics, United States history, morality, and evangelism. Each lecture combines Calvin’s words with historical reflection, and argues for the central role of Calvinism in the development and spread of Western thought. Calvinism, says McFetridge, denotes not only a system of theology, but extends its influence to the spheres of politics, culture, and science.