RT Review
T1 Stefan Zweig contre Calvin (1936)
JF Revue de l'histoire des religions
VO 223
IS 1
SP 71
OP 94
A1 Lestringant, Frank 1951-
LA French
PB Colin
YR 2006
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1645864308
AB Zweig's Castellion versus Calvin, published in May 1936, depicts the heroic figure of the intellectual fighting by the sheer force of his pen against the despot. If Zweig chose Calvin to stand indirectly for Hitler, it was because his combat had crossed paths with that of the pastor Jean Schorer who, in Geneva itself, was at the head of the liberal protestant crusade against the heritage of Calvinist orthodoxy. Without realising it, Zweig thus added his name to a line of anti-protestant writers, from Montaigne and Voltaire, via Balzac, whom he quotes at length through, to Joseph de Maistre, for whom Revolution and Reformation, Terror and Protestantism, went hand in hand. Hence what Zweig saw as Calvinism's "strange metamorphosis" into a school of individual freedom and democracy, in the era of the rise of dictatorships across Europe.
K1 Diktatur
K1 Widerstand
K1 Rezension
DO 10.4000/rhr.4623