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MORE THAN JUSTIFICATION: CARING FOR COMMUNITY IN REFORMATION GENEVA
JENNIFER POWELL MCNUTT

OCTOBER 21, 2021
4:00 PM PT

At the heart of the Protestant Reformation was the doctrine of justification by faith. As German Reformer Martin Luther declared, justification was the doctrine “on which the church stands or falls.” Second generation reformer, John Calvin declared in his Institutes of the Christian Religion that justification was the “hinge upon which all of religion turns.” Yet, how did justification relate to the lived faith of the believer according to the reformers? And what were the social concerns that shaped Reformation ministry? This lecture will explore the practices of social welfare that shaped life in Reformation Geneva as an outworking of Reformed Protestant faith expression.

Jennifer Powell McNutt is the Franklin S. Dyrness Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Wheaton College. She is the author of the award-winning book, Calvin Meets Voltaire: The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, 1685-1798 (Routledge, 2014) and Vice-President of the Calvin Studies Society. Rev. Dr. McNutt is also an ordained Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), parish associate at First Presbyterian Church of Glen Ellyn, and co-president of McNuttshell Ministries with her husband, Rev. Dr. David McNutt. They have three delightful children.