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Ganoczy, Alexandre: Le jeune Calvin. Genèse et évolution de sa vocation réformatrice. Wiesbaden: 1966

pp. 189-192: Proves that Calvin wasn't Mair's student of theology

John Calvin

Lane, Anthony N. S.: John Calvin. Student of the Church Fathers. Edinburgh: 1999

pp. 16-25: Discussion of the possibility that Mair had any direct influence upon Calvin

John Calvin

McGrath, Alister: «John Calvin and Late Medieval Thought. A Study in Late Medieval Influences upon Calvin's Theological Thought». In: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 77. (1986), 58-78

Argues for an (indirect) influence of Mair's theological thought upon Calvin.

John Calvin

McGrath, Alister: The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation. Oxford: 1987

McGrath argues for an (indirect) influence of Mair's theological thought upon Calvin.

John Calvin

Oberman, Heiko Augustinus: Initia Calvini. The Matrix of Calvin's Reformation. Amsterdam: 1991

Refutes any direct influence of Mair upon Calvin

John Calvin

Parker, T.H.L.: John Calvin. London: 1975

Reevaluating Calvin's biography Parker shows that Calvin never can have met John Mair at the collège Montaigu.

John Calvin

Reuter, Karl: Das Grundverständnis der Theologie Calvins, unter Einbezug ihrer geschichtlichen Abhängigkeiten. Neukirchen: 1963

Argues for a direct influence of John Mair upon Calvin

John Calvin

Reuter, Karl: Vom Scholaren bis zum jungen Reformator. Studien zum Werdegang Johannes Calvins. Neukirchen: 1981

Argues for an indirect influence of Mair upon Calvin

John Calvin

Torrance, Thomas F.: «La philosophie et la théologie de Jean Mair ou Major, de Haddington (1469-1550). Fin». In: Archives de Philosophie 33. (1970), 261-293

pp. 262-282 concerning Mair's understanding of theology, where he points to some parallels with John Calvin's understanding of faith;
pp. 282-293 to MAir's hermeneutics.

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Zahnd, Ueli: Calvin, l'âme humaine et la philosophie classique. Influences philosophiques sur la psychopannychia, premier écrit théologique de Calvin. (CRThPh 23). Geneva: 2009» Google Books

pp. 73-76: Discussion (and rejection) of the assumption that Mair had any direct influence upon Calvin

John Calvin