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Treatise on Relics or Tract on Relics (French: Traitté des reliques) is a theological book by theologian John Calvin, written in 1543 in French about the authenticity of many Christian relics. Calvin harshly criticizes the relics' authenticity, and suggests the rejection of relic worship.
Calvin's Treatise On Relics, With Notes By The Translator. St Augustinus complains, in his work entitled The Labour of Monks, that certain people were, even in his time, exercising a dishonest trade, hawking about relics of martyrs, and he adds the following significant words, should they really be relics of martyrs, from which we may infer ...
Apr 25, 2010 · The Treatise on Relics by the great Reformer of Geneva is not so generally known as it deserves, though at the time of its publication it enjoyed a considerable popularity. 1 The probable reason of this is: the absurdity of the relics described in the Treatise has since the Reformation gradually become so obvious, that their ...
Apr 25, 2010 · The treatise critiques the practices surrounding the veneration of relics and images within the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, arguing against their legitimacy and highlighting the dangers of superstition associated with these practices.
Dec 30, 2018 · Treatise on Relics (fr. «Traitté des reliques» ) — work, by John Calvin. English-language translations of Traitté des reliques include: An Admonition showing, the Advantages which Christendom might derive from an Inventory of Relics (1844), translated by Henry Beveridge.
This was the origin of the worship of relics, which went on increasing in the same ratio as the purity of Christian doctrines was giving way to the superstitions of Paganism. The worship of images is intimately connected with that of the saints.
Nickell presents a brief biography of Calvin and brings the story of investigating relics up to date by explaining how sophisticated modern techniques are...
