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Behe's Boy said:I'm going to be starting an in-depth study of Calvin's "The Institutes of The Christian Religion" on Monday, 18 April. Would anybody care to join me - and perhaps start up a weekly or semi-weekly discussion on the book? Just curious - I have never read this and I will have some time before classes start up in Summer to read them. Anybody is welcome to join in....
Welcome back Kenith...Cajun Huguenot said:I've been reading through them also. I am moving very slowly. I am on book 2 (out of 4) chapter 13. Calvin has some great insights!!!!
Kenith
HiredGoon said:I have a copy of Beveridge's translation which I haven't read through yet. I've only read passages here and there, it's about time I read through the whole thing. My problem is I rarely finish books I'm reading, there's always something else to read which distracts me. It's a bad habit I picked up as a history major in college, having to read an average of 5 large history books per class per semester, you just can't read them all completely.
Behe's Boy said:I'm going to be starting an in-depth study of Calvin's "The Institutes of The Christian Religion" on Monday, 18 April. Would anybody care to join me - and perhaps start up a weekly or semi-weekly discussion on the book? Just curious - I have never read this and I will have some time before classes start up in Summer to read them. Anybody is welcome to join in....
Street Preacher said:How do we get started? I'll be using the free copy that comes with e-sword...can anyone suggest a good translation in print?
GrinningDwarf said:I've heard from several sources that the Library of Christian Classics edition edited by John T. McNeill is the best. It's a two-volume hardcover and you can find it at christianbooks.com. That's where I got mine.
Street Preacher said:How do we get started? I'll be using the free copy that comes with e-sword...can anyone suggest a good translation in print?
from: http://prosthesis.blogspot.com/Marilynne Robinson's Gilead (I still haven't read it) won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
"This is a quiet book," she said Monday from the porch of her home. "A lot of young writers think they have to write something sensationalistic to get noticed. I'm very pleased that this book, which is very theological in many ways, seems to be interesting to a lot of people."
Robinson is also the author of the book, "The Death of Adam," which, among other things, argues that John Calvin is highly under-read:
"In several of the essays in this book I talk about John Calvin, a figure of the greatest historical consequence, especially for our culture, who is more or less entirely unread. Learned-looking books on subjects to which he is entirely germane typically do not include a single work of his immense corpus in their bibliographies, nor indicate in their allusions to him a better knowledge than folklore can provide of what he thought and said. I have encountered an odd sort of social pressure as often as I have mentioned him. One does not read Calvin. One does not think of reading him. The prohibition is more absolute than it ever was against Marx, who always had the glamour of the subversive or the forbidden about him. Calvin seems to be neglected on principle."
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