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Institutes of the Christian Religion (Paperback)
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Institutes of the Christian Religion (Paperback)
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John Calvin's magnum opus "The Institutes of Christian Religion" is
a monumental text of Christianity and a foundational work of
Western Civilization. First penned in 1536 in Latin, this seminal
work of protestant theology has been translated into countless
languages and studied widely by theologians, pastors, university
students, and religious scholars alike for nearly five hundred
years. In it, John Calvin sets out to examine, challenge, and
critique the accepted Catholic doctrines of his day. He takes up
Christian sacraments, justification by faith alone, and Christian
liberty to introduce his vision of a reformed Christian theology.
Calvin stays close to the scripture and with a lucid and sober mind
establishes what would come to be known as Calvinism: the belief in
predestination, the authority of Biblical scripture, and the
sovereignty of god. This text firmly situates him alongside
Augustine, Origen, and Thomas Aquinas as a great and formative
religious thinker and writer. Calvin uses ethics, apologetics,
eschatology, and biblical exegesis to create the architecture
around modern Protestantism. "Institutes" quickly became a
controversial and widely read text and many view it as pivotal in
inciting the great Reformation of the 16th century. Calvin intended
for the book to act as an introduction to the Protestant faith,
and, in this vein, "Institutes" remains a central text to the
millions of the world's Calvinists and stands as a major work of
western civilization.
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