Institutes of the Christian Religion: Ed. by John T. McNeill : Transl. and Indexed by Ford Lewis Battles ; in Collaboration with the Editor and a Committee of Advisers, Volume 1 (Google eBook)

Jean Calvin

Westminster John Knox Press, 1973 - 885 pages

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Calvin is really passionate about what he is writing about, and, while his prose can often be really dry and boring, ultimately his enthusiasm shows through. For Calvin, every doctrine he teaches is ...

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I actually finished this a long time ago. Finished it several times, actually. If people read Calvin, they will soon learn that all their stereotypes of him are wrong. He said nothing on ...

Contents

• EDITORS PREFACE: xix
• BOOK FOUR THE EXTERNAL MEANS OR AIDS BY WHICH: lxi
• JOHN CALVIN TO THE READER 1559: 3
• The Knowledge of God and That: 35
• Scripture Is Needed as Guide: 69
• So Far as Human Reason Goes Suffi: 81
• Fanatics Abandoning Scripture and Fly: 93
• It Is Unlawful to Attribute a Visible: 99
• of the Sign 1324: 110
• How God Is to Be So Distinguished from: 116
• Even in the Creation of the Universe: 159
• Discussion of Human Nature as Created: 183
• God by His Power Nourishes and Main: 197
• BOOK Two THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE REDEEMER: 239
• Man Has Now Been Deprived of Free: 255
• Only Damnable Things Come Forth: 289
• How God Works in Mens Hearts: 309
• Refutation of the Objections Commonly: 316
• Fallen Man Ought to Seek Redemption: 340
• The Law Was Given Not to Restrain: 348
• Explanation of the Moral Law the: 367
• The Five Other Ceremonies Falsely: 371
• Christ Although He Was Known to: 423
• The Difference Between the Two Testa: 449
• Christ Had to Become Man in Order: 464
• Christ Assumed the True Substance: 474
• How the Two Natures of the Mediator: 482
• To Know the Purpose for Which Christ: 494
• How Christ Has Fulfilled the Function: 503
• Christ Rightly and Properly Said: 528
• BOOK THREE THE WAY IN WHICH WE RECEIVE THE GRACE: 537
• Repentance: 592
• How Far from the Purity of the Gospel: 622
• The Supplements That They Add: 670
• The Life of the Christian Man: 684
• Bearing the Cross a Part of Selfdenial: 702
• Meditation on the Future Life: 712
• How We Must Use the Present Life: 719
• First the Defini: 725
• We Must Lift Up Our Minds to Gods: 754
• Two Things to Be Noted in Free Justi: 763
• The Ancient Form of Government: 778
• Boasting About the Merits of Works: 788
• Refutation of the False Accusations: 797
• Works Righteousness Is Wrongly: 821
• Christian Freedom: 833
• Civil Government 1485: 846

Bibliographic information

• Title: Institutes of the Christian Religion: Ed. by John T. McNeill : Transl. and Indexed by Ford Lewis Battles ; in Collaboration with the Editor and a Committee of Advisers, Volume 1; Library of Christian classics
• Author: Jean Calvin
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 1973
• ISBN: 1611640946, 9781611640946
• Length: 885 pages