ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The necessity of discerning between old and new ways is constantly reflected in the Company's registers. For example, at the same time that the Company was pursuing the condemnation and suppression of radical books such as The Life of Voltaire, the clergy were also reassessing the place of Calvin's catechism in the religious life of the city. Evidently, there was no simple way forward for Geneva's eighteenth-century clergy. In subsequent years, when beset by the French philosophes and their cultural agendas in person and print, the Company defended Calvin's name and the reputation of his legacy. Apparently, a Geneva without the crucial functioning of its Reformed clergy and weekly worship was unfathomable to a city still enduringly Protestant. Finally, a concern for social morality was underscored throughout the era; this concept was also bound by a Calvinist understanding of sanctification and human imperfection.
