Calvin's Institutes - Read Them in 2009!

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Ivan said:
Folks, if you don't have a copy of Calvin's Institues you may read it via the website provided.
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I can't figure out how. I subscribed to the podcast but can't find a word document anywhere. Can you walk me through it?
 
How different will the Beveridge edition be? It is available for free on ccel.org.
 
A few months ago, I got an evening part-time job as a security guard. My task was to sit in a parked car for three hours a night and make sure that no one stole any copper wiring from an industrial yard nearly. Nothing happened on my watch- except that I was able to go through the Institutes along with Van Til's The Case for Calvinism.

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KMK said:
How different will the Beveridge edition be? It is available for free on ccel.org.
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They will post the reading for each day on the main page. Right now there is a short essay on Princeton, and reading through the Institutes...
 
Calvin 09 - Read The Institutes

reformation 21 :: the Online Magazine of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
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The Princeton website doesn't appear to be fully active. I assume they'll have it all together by 1/1.

I believe the Reformation21 site will provide better commentary. However, I like the Princeton calendar. On their schedule there are no readings on Sunday and Christmas. Reformation21 doesn't have a schedule that I can find, but surely they will provide one.

So, yes, do one or the other or both, but please share here at the PB.
 
KMK said:
How different will the Beveridge edition be? It is available for free on ccel.org.
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I'm in too. Not only was it on my "to do" list for next year anyway, but in the 500th anniversary year of Calvin's birth, how could I not?

Recently, to provide an escape from the tension at work, I have redecorated a converted garage room into a "Reformation Library" with several of the Reformation Art prints (Synod of Dordt, Westminster Assembly, Reformers collage, Calvin pic, Calvin 10x36), Bunyan, Knox, Luther, a dozen or so Reformer/Reformation mugs, a Calvin coin in a paperweight, a bobble headed Luther, bobble headed Calvin, 400 year old framed leaf from a Geneva Bible, Martin Luther wind-up doll, and newly scaled back books.

As to your question, the McNeill edition is considered the standard "scholarly" source and is replete with great footnotes. If your interest is in simply reading, some prefer the way the older edition reads (translation philosophy). You can get the Beveridge edition from CBD for less than $15 and in pdf form online for free. McNeill typically will set you back about $50.
 
I read through the Institutes in 1982, 1986 (Beveridge edition), and again in 2003 (McNeil).

I prefer Beveridge.

I suppose, in light of it being the 500 year celebration, it would be good to read it through again.

I'm in!
 
Reformation21 doesn't have a schedule that I can find, but surely they will provide one.
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If you email Ref21 they send you the PDF of the schedule. And they break every weekend and holidays.
 
I've read through the institutes a couple of years ago, and I really enjoyed it not only for it's depth, but also for it's clarity.
 
I'm in! I've been wanting to read the Institutes for a few years, so now there's no excuse not to. Can anyone tell me how much time will be required on a daily basis?
 
APuritansMind said:
I'm in! I've been wanting to read the Institutes for a few years, so now there's no excuse not to. Can anyone tell me how much time will be required on a daily basis?
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I haven't checked these reading schedules yet but in the past, I've read about 45 minutes to an hour a day and finished the Institutes in under a year.

So I would imagine these "Scheduled" approaches would take less time than that per day.
 
:turretin:I have been reading through the Institutes for the last year, I am halfway through book 2:calvin:. It is an awesome read although I have been slowed down after purchasing Turretins Institutes and reading that as well.
 
So we have two approaches - Ref21's schedule, which has no reading on either Saturday OR the Lord's Day, nor on Thanksgiving or Christmas, and the Princeton schedule, which skips only the Lord's Day (as well as Christmas).

Perhaps for continuity's sake it'd be best for us all who are going to comment here to follow the same schedule? I'm inclined to go with the Princeton one, simply because the daily chunks are a little bit smaller. Thoughts?
 
Im in !!!

This is going to be great. I have the McNeill (Library of Christian Classics) edition of the Institutes. I am fine with either schedule, but it might be nice to have a smaller chunk each day. :book2:
 
toddpedlar said:
Perhaps for continuity's sake it'd be best for us all who are going to comment here to follow the same schedule? I'm inclined to go with the Princeton one, simply because the daily chunks are a little bit smaller. Thoughts?
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I agree. Princeton plan is fine for me...and there is nothing to refrain us from reading the Ref21 blog.
 
Well I'm certainly looking forward to this - should be great. I spent part of the evening reading the introduction in the McNeill/Battles edition, which I've never done, and found the history of english translations quite interesting.

If anyone doesn't have the Battles Analysis of the Institutes, you might want to pick it up. He's got really good information in there concerning the evolution of the organization of the Institutes, and a fantastic chapter-by-chapter outline of the whole work.

I propose we follow the Princeton, just to keep things on a common footing (and since they are posting via RSS chunks from the Battles translation each day, those of you who don't have the Institutes can follow along that way also).
 
I'm in. However, I will be using the schedule that our church is publishing. We put out a monthly calendar with a daily Bible reading schedule and have now added The Institutes (no readings on the Lord's Day). We will probably add this as a permanent feature to the calendar. In 2010 we will tackle either Bavink or Hodge. :graduate:
 
I recently took care of a neighbor's cats for about a week (while she was gone) and she surprised me today by giving me a 30 dollar gift card for Barnes and Noble. So I bought Henry Beveridge's translation ($25) and am now compelled to join this club. I will now go view the Princeton schedule and I look forward to conversing on the Institues this year.
 
Our Church is challenging members to read the Institutes of the Christian Religion in 2009. We have a deal where the first ten people can purchase, through the Church, the two volume set for only $35!
 
For those who have the iPhone:

Calvin on your mobile device

Starts January 1, 2009
Daily readings of the Institutes of the Christian Religion will be made available for your mobile device. Just navigate your internet ready mobile device to Calvin 09 - Mobile Page and bookmark the page.
Every day a new reading will become available. Just bookmark the above site on your device and enjoy.
iPhone users can click the "+" symbol, when on the above link, to save a Calvin shortcut icon to their home screen.
 
InevitablyReformed said:
I recently took care of a neighbor's cats for about a week (while she was gone) and she surprised me today by giving me a 30 dollar gift card for Barnes and Noble. So I bought Henry Beveridge's translation ($25) and am now compelled to join this club. I will now go view the Princeton schedule and I look forward to conversing on the Institues this year.
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The Beveridge edition is also available on ccel.org. How different is it really going to be from the Battles edition? Has anyone read both?
 
KMK said:
The Beveridge edition is also available on ccel.org. How different is it really going to be from the Battles edition? Has anyone read both?
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I have read both. These two translations differ with respect wording and sentence structure, but the meaning is essentially the same in both versions.
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It's kind of like comparing KJV with NKJV, although in places Battles/McNeill is more like reading NIV.
 
I read the first installment on my iPhone this morning. The following quote stuck with me:

"I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write."
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