{"product_id":"william-farel-bitesize-biographies","title":"William Farel (Bitesize Biographies)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Farel lived his life as one of the magisterial Reformers in\u003cbr\u003ethe shadow of John Calvin and for that reason has been little\u003cbr\u003eknown. He was born in 1489 and in the 1520 s was one of the\u003cbr\u003efirst French speakers to echo Luther s critique of the Roman\u003cbr\u003eCatholic church, having arrived at his own conclusions by simply\u003cbr\u003ereading Scripture. Farel saw this as a work of God s grace and\u003cbr\u003esoon developed a passion to spread the Gospel to other Frenchspeaking\u003cbr\u003elands. By 1528 he had produced the first draft of a\u003cbr\u003eFrench Reformed liturgy and other works soon followed. By 1532\u003cbr\u003ehe was in Geneva, where he would meet Calvin in 1536 and be\u003cbr\u003eby God s grace the main agent in Calvin s call to the city. Calvin\u003cbr\u003edescribed it in his Preface to his commentary on the Psalms:\u003cbr\u003e. . . . 'Guillaume Farel detained me at Geneva, not so much by\u003cbr\u003ecounsel and exhortation, as by a dreadful imprecation, which I\u003cbr\u003efelt to be as if God had from heaven laid his mighty hand upon\u003cbr\u003eme to arrest me.' Jason Zuidema has written a thrilling account of Farel s life and\u003cbr\u003echallenges the classic thinking that a worn-out Farel handed over\u003cbr\u003eto Calvin in Geneva. Although Farel was some twenty years older\u003cbr\u003ethan Calvin he was an intellectual giant and continued to be a\u003cbr\u003emajor influence in the Reformation process.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Evangelical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46001842192605,"sku":"9780852349540","price":99.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/4995\/6829\/files\/9780852349540.jpg?v=1741042193","url":"https:\/\/thebookroom.bischopsford.co.za\/products\/william-farel-bitesize-biographies","provider":"Book Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}