“The holy community which Calvin sought to set up in Geneva represents in some ways a completer integration of Christianity with civilization than anything Europe had yet seen. It is true that there emerges within Calvinism, especially in its later Puritan developments, a more negative attitude toward the cultural amenities than had been present in Medievalism, but just because this spirit of renunciation was not sealed off in separate monastic communities” (John Baillie, What Is Christian Civilization?, pp. 22-23).
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