Download or read book Calvin Meets Voltaire written by Dr Jennifer Powell McNutt and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century Geneva offers a fascinating glimpse into the encounter between the Reformation and the Enlightenment in the figurative meeting of Calvin and Voltaire. This research supports a revisionist understanding of religion and the Enlightenment, moves beyond a simplistic paradigm of 'decline' and secularization, and highlights how Geneva’s French connection ultimately uprooted a society still largely committed to its Protestant-Reformation origins.