Analysis of the Institutes of the Christian Religion of John Calvin

by Battles, Ford Lewis

• ISBN13: 9780875521824
• ISBN10: 0875521827
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Presbyterian & Reformed Pub Co

Summary

Calvin's Institutes is one of the most important theological works of the last millennium, but even seminarians and pastors have difficulty finishing it. The author guided students through Calvin's classic for more than forty-five years. His detailed outline and summary of it have been made available posthumously to all.

Author Biography

Ford Lewis Battles (1915-1979) was one of the leading Calvin scholars of his day, and wrote many seminal journal articles on the Reformation. He was professor of church history at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary from 1967 to 1978, when he became a visiting professor at Calvin Theological Seminary

Table of Contents

Foreword	5	(6)
Introduction	11	(14)
Calvin's Prefatory Address to Francis I	25	(6)
The Knowledge of God the Creator	31	(52)
The Knowledge of God the Redeemerin Christ, First Disclosed to the Fathers Under the Law, and Then to Us in the Gospel	83	(82)
The Way in Which We Receive the Grace of Christ: What Benefits Come to Us from It, and What Effects Follow	165	(114)
The External Means or Aids by Which God Invites Us into the Society of Christ and Holds Us Therein	279