Outside of Holy Scripture Calvin’s institutes is the greatest Christian book ever written. By the reading of Calvin one learns a great deal of spiritual truth and wisdom. Calvin is profound but understandable. He is challenging in some areas of the book, but overall is readable. I find the...
Good day. I know there have been a few older threads about the different translations of the Institutes. Now that the 1541 edition has been out for sometime, I am wondering if anyone has read this one along with his final edition and compared them. I presently only own the 1541 edition published...
Reformation 21 is blogging through Calvin's Institutes this year. You can find their reading plan here.
In 4.16.20 Calvin appeals to the Abrahamic command, as a means of raising difficulties for critics of paedobaptism:
But here Calvin insists on a false dilemma. Why can’t the command of...
Reformation 21 is blogging through Calvin's Institutes this year. You can find their reading plan here.
In 4.16.16, Calvin writes:
But if “it cannot be doubted that it was appointed alike for the sanctification of males and females,” why was there need for a new sign, explicitly applied...
Reformation 21 is blogging through Calvin's Institutes this year. You can find their reading plan here.
In 4.16.10 Calvin writes about that critics of paedobaptism are pressed with:
But this is incorrect. The Baptist does not have to say that the one has nothing in common with the other, or...