Review of the monography by V. A. Bachinin «Europeamn Reformation as spiritual war» (Kiev, 2017)

Abstract

The book is considered as a product of culturological scholarship created by Russian Calvinist. Vladislav Bachinin is sure that the Roman Catholic Church in the late medieval Europe was infected by Renaissance ideas — paganistic and anti-Christian. According to Bachinin, the Reformation saved the European Christianity from this threat. The main savior, according to Bachinin, was John Calvin. Martin Luther is considered as the great «pathfinder» of Reformation and harbinger of Calvin.

Keywords

• luther
• calvin
• jan huss
• theology
• culture
• calvinism