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Hendrickson offers a one-volume hardcover edition of one of Western
Christianity's foundational works. Re-typeset into a clean and
modern typeface, this edition is easy to read for the modern eye.
This book will appeal to libraries, seminarians, pastors, and
laypeople. "Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin is
an introduction to the Bible and a vindication of Reformation
principles by one of the Reformation's finest scholars. At the age
of twenty-six, Calvin published several revisions of his Institutes
of the Christian Religion, a seminal work in Christian theology
that altered the course of Western history and that is still read
by theological students today. It was published in Latin in 1536
and in his native French in 1541, with the definitive editions
appearing in 1559 (Latin) and in 1560 (French).The book was written
as an introductory textbook on the Protestant faith for those with
some learning already and covered a broad range of theological
topics from the doctrines of church and sacraments to justification
by faith alone.It vigorously attacked the teachings of those Calvin
considered unorthodox, particularly Roman Catholicism, to which
Calvin says he had been "strongly devoted" before his conversion to
Protestantism. The over-arching theme of the book - and Calvin's
greatest theological legacy - is the idea of God's total
sovereignty, particularly in salvation and election.
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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