John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian religion : a biography /
John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion is a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology. First published in Latin in 1536 and in Calvin's native French in 1541, the Institutes argues for the majesty of God and for justification by faith alone. The book...
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Remembering a man and his book
- A book emerges
- 1559: the year of the book
- The inheritors
- Enlightenment ambivalence
- Fashioning a reformer
- America's Calvins
- "A very Calvinist professor" and his Dutch friends
- Titans: Barth and Brunner
- Prophet of modernity: prince of tyrants
- Oppression and liberation: South Africa
- Change and dissent: China
- Contemporary voices
- Appendix 1: Burning a man and his books: Michael Servetus and John Calvin
- Appendix 2: Calvin's editions of Institutes of the Christian religion.