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Institutes of the Christian Religion (John Calvin)
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Long regarded as the central theologian of the Protestant Reformation, Calvin changed the course of church and world history. The influence of this book – his original and complete Systematic Theology of the Christian faith – cannot be underestimated. Now released in a readable, newly typeset edition with print large enough to go easy on the eyes, in an affordable single volume.
This is an attractive, one-volume hardcover edition of one of Western Christianity’s foundational works. Re-typeset into a clean and modern typeface, this edition is easy on the eyes. Institutes of the Christian Religion is not only an introduction to all Biblical topics, but a vindication of Reformation principles by one of the Reformation’s finest scholars.
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Institutes of the Christian Religion
The First Great Systematic Theology
Long regarded as the central theologian of the Protestant Reformation, Calvin changed the course of church and world history. The influence of this book – his original and complete Systematic Theology of the Christian faith – cannot be underestimated. Now released in a readable, newly typeset edition with print large enough to go easy on the eyes, in an affordable single volume.
This is an attractive, one-volume hardcover edition of one of Western Christianity’s foundational works. Re-typeset into a clean and modern typeface, this edition is easy on the eyes. Institutes of the Christian Religion is not only an introduction to all Biblical topics, but a vindication of Reformation principles by one of the Reformation’s finest scholars.
Calvin’s Foremost Written Work
The word “Institutes” would be better translated as “Principles of the Christian Faith” or “Instruction in the Christian Faith.” The book was intended by Calvin as a manual for general readers who wanted to know something about the Reformed and Christian faith. The first part of the title the author gave expressed this aim: “The Principles of the Christian Faith, containing almost the whole sum of godliness and whatever it is necessary to know about saving doctrine.”
Calvin later wrote that, when he undertook the work, “all I had in mind was to hand on some elementary teaching by which anyone who had been touched by an interest in religion might be formed to true godliness. I labored at the task especially for our own Frenchmen, for I saw that many were hungering and thirsting after Christ. Yet only a very few had any real knowledge of him.”
About the Author
John Calvin (1509-1564) the French theologian and reformer was persecuted as a protestant. As a result, he traveled from place to place. In 1534 at Angouleme he began the work of systematizing Protestant thought in the Institutes of the Christian Religion. Thus, The Institutes became one of the most influential theological works of all time.
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Institutes of the Christian Religion (John Calvin)
$36.00Institutes of the Christian Religion is Calvin’s single most important work and one of the key texts to emerge from the Reformation of the sixteenth century. The book accompanied the Reformer throughout his life, growing in size from what was essentially an expanded catechism in 1536 to a full-scale work of biblical theology in 1559-60.
Among the intermediate editions of the Institutes, none deserves to be better known than the first French edition of 1541.
Avoiding the technical details and much of the polemics of the final work, the Institutes of 1541 offers a clear and comprehensive account of the work of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in creation, revelation, and redemption in the life of the individual Christian and in the worship and witness of the church.
Not doctrine only but its practical use is Calvin’s abiding concern. The author of the Institutes invites us both to know and to live the truth, and thus allow God’s Spirit to transform us.
The present translation is newly made from the French of 1541. It has been designed and annotated with the needs of a wide readership in mind.
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