Institutes of the Christian Religion
Author: John Calvin
Translator: Nak-heung Yang
Publisher: Christian Digest
ISBN : 9788944724145(8944724148)
Hardcover | 423 pages | 150 * 225 mm
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About This Book
Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on
Protestant theology.
The original Latin edition appeared in 1536 with a preface addressed to
King Francis I of France, written on behalf of the French Protestants
(Huguenots) who were being persecuted. Most often, references to the
Institutes are to Calvin's final Latin edition of 1559, which was
significantly expanded and revised from earlier editions. The Institutes
are a primary historical reference for the system of doctrine adopted by
the Reformed churches, usually called Calvinism.
The opening chapter of the Institutes is perhaps the best known, in
which Calvin presents the basic plan of the book. There are two general
subjects to be examined: the creator, and his creatures. Above all, the
book concerns the knowledge of God the Creator; but "as it is in the
creation of man that the divine perfections are best displayed", there
also is an examination of what can be known about humankind. After all,
it is mankind's knowledge of God and of what he requires of his
creatures, that is overall the issue of concern for a book of theology.
In the first chapter, these two issues are considered together, to show
what God has to do with mankind (and other creatures), and especially,
how knowing God is connected with human knowledge.
To pursue that explanation of the relationship between God and man,
Calvin adopts a traditional structure of Christian instruction used in
Western Christianity, by arranging the material according to the plan of
the Apostles' Creed. First the knowledge of God is considered as
knowledge of the Father, the creator, provider and sustainer. Then it is
examined how the Son reveals the Father, as only God is able to reveal
God. And finally, the third section of the Institutes describes the work
of the Holy Spirit, who raised Christ from the dead, and who comes from
the Father and the Son to effect a union in the Church through faith in
Jesus Christ, with God, forever.
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