The Practical John Calvin

Résumé du livre

Many things are said about John Calvin, but few ever mention just how practical his works really are. I was struck with this practicality when first reading Calvin twenty or so years ago after 'accidentally' buying a copy of the Institutes at the local Christian bookstore. I took the two volumes home and dove right into a lightning storm of inspiration and solid Bible application. What seemed most crazy to me about becoming Calvin's student was that fact that he had penned these truths some five hundred years before. We as pastors often read books a great while before we stumble across some truth that upsets our whole way of thinking. I found in reading Calvin the best pay for my labor. Although the two volumes of the Institutes seem large, Calvin himself says that by nature he loves brevity and goes to lengths to bullseye truths rather than waste his reads time with things that don't really matter. This little book is just a starter book for people who have been underexposed to Calvin's thought. I am no academic theologian as you can tell, but as a local church pastor it is my hope that Calvin's writings will promote the Glory of Christ for just one more accidental reader.All passages have modernized English from the 1845 Beverage Translation of the Institutes Paul Jason Perkins is the Pastor Of Resurrection Church in Woodlawn VA