Start your day with the truths that have shaped lives for centuries. Along with Martin Luther, John Calvin, the great scholar and Christian leader, was one of the central figures in the Protestant Reformation. A year's worth of daily devotional readings taken from Calvin's commentaries and from Calv[...]
Including a 500-year logo/emblem to celebrate the 500th anniversary of John Calvin's birth, this set contains 22 commentary volumes and the Beveridge edition of "Calvin's Institutes".[...]
John Piper fires readers' passion for the centrality and supremacy of God by unfolding Calvin's exemplary zeal for the glory of God. God rests all too lightly on the church's mind in our time. Consequently, the self-saturation of his people has made God and his glory auxiliary, and his majesty has a[...]
In this classic devotional, John Calvin urges readers to apply the Christian life in a balanced way to mind, heart, and hand. Rather than focusing on contemplative otherworldliness, the book stresses the importance of a devotedly active Christian life. In style and spirit, this book is much like Aug[...]
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 mode[...]
This is a major study of the theological thought of John Calvin, which examines his central theological ideas through a philosophical lens, looking at issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics. The study, the first of its kind, is concerned with how Calvin actually uses philosophical ideas in [...]
Born to a noble family in Tournai, Marie Dentiere (1495-1561) left her convent in the 1520s to work for religious reform. She married a former priest and with her husband went to Switzerland, where she was active in the Reformation's takeover of Geneva. Dentiere's Very Useful Epistle (1539) is the f[...]
John Calvin (1509-1564) is one of the most important figures in religious history. Sitting on the cusp of the medieval and early modern world, he was centre stage during the Reformation. In this new biography, Michael Mullett introduces us to this most important figure, tying his life together with [...]
Two classic science fiction novels in one handsome volume.
Here are two masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from the father of science fiction. "The Time Machine" propels the Time Traveller into a distant, dismal, Darwinian future. "The Invisible Man" tells of a brash young scientist w[...]
John Calvin (1509â1564) stands with Martin Luther (1483â1546) as the premier theologian of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. Calvinâs thought spread throughout Europe to the New World and later throughout the whole world. His insights and influence continue to endure today[...]
Examines Calvin's life and his influence, his theology and his political thought, and his impact on the social and political legislature of New England. It also traces Calvin's remarkable impact on the development of modern Western attitudes to work, wealth, civil rights and capitalism.[...]
John Calvin's reading of the Old Testament was a departure from that of many of his contemporaries. He rejected much of the traditional Christian exegesis of the Old Testament that attempted to to explain it in terms of the New Testament revelation of Christ. He also rejected much of the traditional[...]
Many would argue that a true understanding of contemporary Christian thought is impossible without a basic understanding of Calvin's contributions. William Stacy Johnson, a leading Presbyterian theologian, offers this clear and fundamental study of Calvin's insights as a primer for those with little[...]
John Calvin, the French Protestant theologian, had planned a life of quiet, scholarly study. But while travelling to Strasbourg in 1536, a local war forced him to make a detour through Geneva. Here he stayed, apart from a short period of exile, until the end of his life. His time in Geneva was ma[...]
This historically significant volume collects Karl Barth's lectures on John Calvin, delivered at the University of Gottingen in 1922. The book opens with an illuminating sketch of medieval theology, an appreciation of Luther's breakthrough, and a comparative study of the roles of Zwingli and Calvin.[...]
This new release is a one-volume commentary on the Psalms that contains the King James text, and a running commentary by Charles Spurgeon, John Calvin, and Matthew Henry.[...]