This culminating volume of Droz's impeccably edited project offers resources from a pivotal period in Reformed church history. While previous volumes demonstrated the significant influence of the Genevans in the development of an international tradition, volume xiv documents the pinnacle of its consolidation with the Synod of Dordrecht. This edition reveals the thoughts and travels of delegates to United Provinces, their internal concerns about the political implications of the Dutch situation, and clear Genevan responses to the five objections to the five Remonstrant concerns (especially pp. 437–55). In French, with a few pieces in Latin, this work clarifies the complicated relationships and agendas of the period, especially the relevance of the Genevan pastors' approach to practical matters of church discipline, liturgical disagreements, marital scandals and the equitable compensation of clergymen in the countryside and professors at the Académie. One gets a sense from the assembled sources that, at least in the early seventeenth century, the terms ‘Reformed’ and ‘Calvinist’ are justifiably used interchangeably, at least by 1619. Historians of doctrine, politics and society will all appreciate the extraordinarily helpful detail that this volume provides. As we have come to expect, the scholars at l'Institut d'histoire de la Réformation have produced work of the highest quality: on its own, the extensive introduction is a worthwhile study of the history behind the Synod of Dordtrecht; the rich footnotes provide helpful explanations of the material and paths to further scholarly exploration; the index will help researchers trace the ideas and experiences of lesser-known individuals from the period. Indeed, this work serves as a worthy finale to the undertaking initiated in 1962 by François Bergier and Robert Kingdon.
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