An Explorer's Guide to John Calvin (Explorer's Guides)
by Yudha Thianto
Creation is the theater of God's glory. Scripture is like a pair of glasses that clarifies our vision of God. Justification is the hinge on which religion turns. These and other affirmations are often associated with John Calvin, the 16th-century French Protestant Reformer best known for his ministry in Geneva and his authorship of the Institutes of the Christian Religion. Over the course of his lifetime and through several editions, Calvin expanded the Institutes from a brief study to a four-vo...
The Spirit Is Moving: New Pathways in Pneumatology (Studies in Reformed Theology, #38)
The work of the Spirit of God is a vibrant and much discussed topic in many contemporary Christian communities worldwide. Apparently, the Spirit is moving. Theological reflection on this phenomenon has even given rise to what is often called a 'pneumatological renaissance'. This volume not only takes stock of these remarkable developments, but also probes some of their hidden aspects and highlights avenues for future exploration. It contains a wide-ranging but coherent assortment of essays, cove...
"Common Order" is the Church of Scotland's latest Book of Common Order, offering a rich provision for worship, faithful to the Bible and to Christian experience. It contains orders for morning and evening services, Holy Baptism and Communion, marriage funerals and occasional services. Also included are prayers for the Christian year and specific graces, a pattern for a daily service and for daily devotion and the Revised Common Lectionary, with appropriate collects.
The Great Christian Revolution
by Otto Scott, Mark R Rushdoony, Rousas John Rushdoony, John Lofton, and Martin Selbrede
The History and Character of Calvinism (Galaxy Book)
by John T McNeill
Protestantism, Poetry and Protest (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
by S.K. Barker
Antoine de Chandieu (1534-1591) was a key figure in the establishment and development of the French Protestant Church. Of all its indigenous leaders, he was perhaps closest to Calvin, and took a leading role in all the major debates about resistance, church order and doctrine of the Church. He was also a prodigious writer of political, religious and poetical works, whose output corresponds to a period of great turmoil in the progress of the French Church. Chandieu was uniquely placed not merely...
God the Redeemer is Book 2 in The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin. The Institutes are rightfully known as the Magnum Opus of Christian theology. God the Redeemer deals with the subject of redemption through Christ. It shows how God works in the hearts of human beings and refutes the concept of free will.
John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, and Doxology
by R. C. Sproul
Professor Bouwsma studies the theologian John Calvin as a way to bring into focus the cultural, psychological, and intellectual problems of the sixteenth century. He argues that Calvin represents an historical moment of transition from traditional modes of philosophical and religious thought to modern ones. Beginning with a description of the traditional culture of Calvin's time, and of the moralism which exerted such a powerful hold over medieval thought, he goes on to indentify the crucial iss...