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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches > General
So you think you're a Protestant? Can you tell me what you are
protesting? This is the question we all must ask ourselves.
Unfortunately, it is the question many seem to be without an answer
for. Take a look into history regarding the Roman Catholic Church
and the Reformed Protestant views of the doctrines of grace. It is
only when we know our past and our present that we can truly
understand the marvelous grace of God and how He has chosen to
display His love for us through a means that we can only partially
grasp this side of Heaven.
The translator has done a truly excellent job of putting Calvin's
work into a very readable English format. If you have ever wanted
to read Calvin, here is your chance. Frankly, one might compare the
study of Calvin to the opportunity to either sit with Christ on the
mount or later to hear Matthew retell the story. Why go to a
secondary source when Calvin is so easy to understand and so
readily available in this edition? These pages bring Calvin right
into your living room, where you learn the reformed faith first
hand. To sum it up: Pastor, student, or layman, if you don't have
this work in your study collection, such a collection is
incomplete. Complete enough to suit the demands of the scholar,
written so the average layman can understand, here is John Calvin.
This is a terrific tool in understanding our Reformed faith from
the very father of the reformation that led to the Presbyterian
Church.
Bringing together a rich range of primary sources - images,
liturgies, sermons, letters, eyewitness accounts, and Genevan
consistory records - this book examines worship as it was taught
and practiced in John Calvin's Geneva. Several of these primary
sources are translated into English for the first time, offering
new resources for studying Calvin and his context. Karin Maag uses
Geneva as a case study for investigating the theology and practice
of worship in the Reformation era. Covering the period from 1541 to
1564, the year of Calvin's death, Lifting Hearts to the Lord
captures both Calvin's signal contribution to Reformation worship
and the voices of ordinary Genevans as they navigated - and
debated, even fought about - the changes in worship resulting from
the Reformation.
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