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Pious City: Community and Charity in Calvin’s Geneva

Pious City: Community and Charity in Calvin’s Geneva By Esther Chung-Kim The Reformation in Geneva was not a smooth process. Building a Reformed city meant addressing religious, political, ethnic, disciplinary, and economic tensions, including concerns about charity for community formation. In 1535, an alliance with the free cities of the Swiss confederation led to a revolt against the dukes of Savoy, with Geneva emerging as a free republic. Because the prince-bishop and the Catholic Church had long relied on Savoy for sup- port, many Genevans, including the Children of Geneva faction (Enfants de Genève), resisted the rule of the prince-bishop and saw the established church as an inroad for Savoy or other foreign powers to threaten their hard-won lib- erties. PriortotheReformation,themagistrates’primaryconcernwastolimit the Catholic Church’s economic power because of the Genevan desire for self- rule.WiththeReformation,oppositiontotheprince-bishopbecameapolitical and religious revolution that resulted in the creation of new governing coun- cils, the General Hospital, the Company of Pastors, and the consistory. With the shift in political alliances and religious loyalties, the magistrates also trans- formed former Catholic spaces into the city hospital, a lecture hall, places for Reformedcongregations,andthesecondaryschoolhousedintheformerFran- ciscan monasteryat Rive. ThenewlyindependentGenevaadoptedProtestantismundertheleadership of a French Reformed preacher, William Farel, and the city’s General Council 1. Abbreviations – CO: Joannis Calvini Opera http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History de Gruyter

Pious City: Community and Charity in Calvin’s Geneva

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By Esther Chung-Kim The Reformation in Geneva was not a smooth process. Building a Reformed city meant addressing religious, political, ethnic, disciplinary, and economic tensions, including concerns about charity for community formation. In 1535, an alliance with the free cities of the Swiss confederation led to a revolt against the dukes of Savoy, with Geneva emerging as a free republic. Because the prince-bishop and the Catholic Church had long relied on Savoy for sup- port, many Genevans, including the Children of Geneva faction (Enfants de Genève), resisted the rule of the prince-bishop and saw the established church as an inroad for Savoy or other foreign powers to threaten their hard-won lib- erties. PriortotheReformation,themagistrates’primaryconcernwastolimit the Catholic Church’s economic power because of the Genevan desire for self- rule.WiththeReformation,oppositiontotheprince-bishopbecameapolitical and religious revolution that resulted in the creation of new governing coun- cils, the General Hospital, the Company of Pastors, and the consistory. With the shift in political alliances and religious loyalties, the magistrates also trans- formed former Catholic spaces into the city hospital, a lecture hall, places for Reformedcongregations,andthesecondaryschoolhousedintheformerFran- ciscan monasteryat Rive. ThenewlyindependentGenevaadoptedProtestantismundertheleadership of a French Reformed preacher, William Farel, and the city’s General Council 1. Abbreviations – CO: Joannis Calvini Opera

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Published: Nov 1, 2022

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