“Tis those whose cause my former booklet pled
Whose zeal to learn has wrought this tome instead.” — John Calvin
One of the most fascinating things about Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion is the history of its slow accretion of content from a simple four part booklet to a voluminous tome. One aspect of the Institutes [...]
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