Hello everyone,
I'm doing a school project about purgatory in age of reformation and I'm searching for information about Calvinists and purgatory, does anyone have any good, credible resources? I read some books about reformation and few works of Calvin but I can't find any evidence that Calvin somehow responded to the Doctrine of Purgatory directly or indirectly. I'll very appreciate any tips for books/articles or anything else in English or German.
Thanks for the help!
For future reference, it is always a good idea to search English Google with the English phrase (here calvin purgatory)--that will turn up results through Google Books, by searching the digital text of those books, that calvin fegefeuer won't. ;)
In any case, to my knowledge, Calvin's most extensive discussion of purgatory is in Institutes 3.5, which you can read online in an older English translation here. He also mentions it briefly in his letter to (debate with) Cardinal Sadoleto in France. For your project, you might think about how the two writings are different in what Calvin is emphasizing about purgatory's wrongness.