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An invaluable anthology that has been assembled to promote a warm personal grasp of Calvin, the man. The aim of the book is to know the Christian man as he saw himself, to see the Christian life as he understood it, and to examine both his theoretical exposition or prayer and his own prayers, in the liturgy and for other occasions.… (meer)
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To
John Leith
instrument of God's gracious providence but for whose timely pastoral intervention both this book and the life of its author would not be
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[Foreword] In 1969, Ford Lewis Battles--a name that has by now rightly become virtually synonymous with the leading, modern edition of John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion--set his fertile mind to explaining not only the systematic theology of the great Genevan Reformer but also the underlying piety that continually sparked the engine of that systematic theology
[Daughter's Preface] It was with a great sense of reassurance of God's providential hand that I received word of the intention to republish this work in its entirety, musical settings included.
[Preface to the First Edition] The present collection of texts was originally made primarily to acquaint Roman Catholic students with the spiritual teaching of John Calvin (1509-1564), the Reformer of the Swiss city of Geneva and the chief architect of the Reformed tradition of Protestantism.
[Introduction] In his first Catechism (published in French in 1537 and in Latin in 1538), John Calvin defined the untranslatable word pietas, which for him was the short-hand symbol for his whole understanding and practice of Christian faith and life:
True piety does not consist in a fear which willingly indeed flees God's judgment, but since it cannot escape is terrified. True piety consists rather in a sincere feeling which loves God as Father as much as it fears ...
It is hard to express in words What varied and shining riches This treasure contains: Whatever I am about to say I know will fall far short Of the worth of the Book of Psalms.
[Epilogue] Let us remember: How ever low the church's outward state, It shines in inward beauty; Though shaken upon the earth, In heaven it is firmly seated; Though in the world's sight it lies maimed and fallen, Before God and His angels it stands whole and flourishes; Though wretched after the flesh, In the spirit it abounds in spirtual blessedness.
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[Foreword] Both Calvin and Battles would be pleased to have their future students read their explorations through their own mentor's works centuries later.
[Daughter's Preface] As a newly retypeset edition, it underscores how the authors' original, divinely led intentions are still being realized in the church today through modern publishing.
[Preface to the First Edition] Without their labors this would have been a poorer book. Lastly, to Stanley E. Tagg for his labors as musical editor goes warm appreciation.
[Introduction] What better passage to do this is there, than the hymn to Creation which is included in chapter 7 of this volume and to which you, the reader, are invited to turn.
An invaluable anthology that has been assembled to promote a warm personal grasp of Calvin, the man. The aim of the book is to know the Christian man as he saw himself, to see the Christian life as he understood it, and to examine both his theoretical exposition or prayer and his own prayers, in the liturgy and for other occasions.
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