Originally published: London : Dent, 1975.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-217) and index.

Childhood and youth. Child of the church ; Arts student ; Training in philosophy -- Orlǎns and Bourges. The study of civil law ; Friends and relatives ; Bourges and a new start ; The first book ; Fugitive from injustice -- Christianae religionis institutio. Its character and purpose ; Law, faith, and prayer ; The sacraments ; Liberty -- Genevan trials. An exile from home ; Sixteenth-century Geneva ; Church authority ; Organization in theory and practice -- The French minister in Strasbourg. Matters domestic and pastoral ; The new Institutio ; The commentary on Romans ; Geneva changes its mind -- The Genevan Church settlement. The Ordinances ; The church at worship ; Calvin the preacher -- Opposition to a godly society. The opposition musters ; Calvin at home ; The Institutio again and New Testament commentaries ; The opposition grows ; The battle over discipline -- Defeat into security. The trial and death of Servetus ; The fall of the Perrinists ; The university of Geneva ; Old Testament commentaries and the final Institutio -- Caring for the churches. The one body ; Letters private and public ; Outside Geneva -- Christ is gain in dyingþ.