Book Suggestions

[Miller]

I'm looking to get a book or two on Calvin's view of the Lord's Supper, any suggestions? Also, how about a biography of Calvin, what's the best book?

 

[toddpedlar]

I'm looking to get a book or two on Calvin's view of the Lord's Supper, any suggestions? Also, how about a biography of Calvin, what's the best book?

Three that come to mind are the aforementioned book by Keith Mathison, "Given For You", a work by B. A. Gerrish, entitled "Grace and Gratitude: The Eucharistic Theology of John Calvin" and an older work by Ronald Wallace, entitled "Calvin's Doctrine of Word and Sacrament".

I have read the first and last, and each is excellent, and worth your while studying. I don't know the Gerrish book, but I've read others by him to good profit.

Todd

 

[VaughanRSmith]

I've just started the Mathison one, and I'm enjoying it.

 

[AV1611]

Here is an article:

http://churchsociety.org/churchman/documents/Cman_117_4_Mason.pdf

 

[ReadBavinck]

Make sure you don't forget to read the primary source, Calvin himself. Here are the obvious places. Others may have references which are a less obvious.

• Institutes: Book 4: chapters 14, 17, 18
• 1 Corinthians Commentary chapter 11:17-33 (In the BakerBooks edition it's page 363-395)
• Harmony of the Evangelists Commentary (BakerBooks: 202-215)

 

[Miller]

Thanks for all the replies. I've actually got Calvin's Institutes and Barkhof's Systematic THeology and other sources. I think I'll get Mathison's and Wallace's books as well.

Any Calvin biographys that stand above the rest?

 

[AV1611]

Thanks for all the replies. I've actually got Calvin's Institutes and Barkhof's Systematic THeology and other sources. I think I'll get Mathison's and Wallace's books as well.

Any Calvin biographys that stand above the rest?

Whilst not what you were asking for, you may wish to read Thomas Cranmer on the Lord's Supper. His key work is A defence of the true and Catholike doctrine of the Sacrament of the body and bloud of our Saviour Christ. It is usually sold as "The Lord's Supper" and can be found 3/4 of the way down here.

Or you could take the bull by the horns and get this which contains his work just mentioned plus more

 

[Dieter Schneider]

John Calvin

You may wish to check http://www.calvinismonline.blogspot.com/

 

[Casey]

From his own pen: Short Treatise on The Holy Supper of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

You can read the Consensus Tigurinus and the Second Swiss Confession, both of which address the Lord's Supper and were signed by Calvin, in this thread.

As for Calvin biographies, you might try The Life of John Calvin by Theodore Beza; A Life of John Calvin by Alister MacGrath; or The Life and Character of Calvin: The Reformer: Reviewed and Defended by Thomas Smyth.