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Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Wilhelm Pauck
Wilhelm Pauck
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University of Chicago
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On account of its influence upon many generations of Protestants, Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion may be regarded as the classical statement of the Protestant Christian faith. It reflects more clearly than any other book produced by the Reformation the thought which inaugurated the whole Protestant movement.

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Research Article
Information
Church History , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 1946 , pp. 17 - 27
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1946

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References

1 The following books may prove helpful in further study: Warfield, Benjamin B., “On the Literary History of Calvin's Institutes,” in Calvin and Calvinism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1931), 373–478Google Scholar; Autin, Albert, L'Institution Chrétienne (Paris; Société d'Editions Littéraires, 1929)Google Scholar; Köstlin, Julius, “Calvin's Institntio nach Form und Inhalt,” in Theologisehe Studien und Kritiken, 41 (1868), 7–62, 410–486Google Scholar; Hunter, A. Mitchell, The Teaching of Calvin (Glasgow: Maclehose, 1920)Google Scholar; Wernle, Paul, Der evangelische Glaube nach den Hauptschriften der Reformatoren, Vol. III; Calvin (Tübingen: Mohr, 1919)Google Scholar; Niesel, Wilhelm, Die Theologic Calvins (München: Kaiser, 1938).Google Scholar

The best critical edition of Calvin, 's InstitutesGoogle Scholar has been furnished by Barth, Peter and Niesel, Wilhelm under the title: Joannis Calvini Opera Selecta (Munich: Kaiser, 1926–1936).Google Scholar The 1536 edition of the Institutes is printed in Vol. I; the 1559Google Scholar edition appears in Vols. III–V. The text is so printed that the changes made in the several editions by Calvin are clearly indicated.

2 Calvin, John, The Institutes of the Christian Religion, translated by Allen, John. 6th American edition. (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Education, 1928), I, 21f.Google Scholar

3 Institutes, IIIGoogle Scholar; 7, 1. Allen, translation, I, 618f.Google Scholar