Robert, Restless and Always Reforming

I was reading today and came across this quote from Calvin which greatly refreshed me on this day. It stirs in me religious affections for Jesus the Christ who is the believer’s great reward. As lovers of Christ we should delight in the thought of eternal life with our Lord and that no pleasure on earth [...]

One of my favorite books in the Bible is the epistle to the Romans by Paul. John Piper calls it “The greatest letter every written”. So in that I enjoyed reading the book Reading Romans through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Karl Barth by Timothy Larsen (Editor), Jeffrey Greenman (Editor).   Romans which [...]

The Expository Genius of John Calvin by Steven J. Lawson, who is senior pastor at Christ Fellowship Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama. This is the first volume from the series “Long Line of Godly Men Profiles” published by Reformed Trust the publishing arm of Ligonier Ministries. As I understand it, future volumes will cover Jonathan [...]

John Calvin and Roman Catholicism: Critique an Engagement, Then and Now. This book grew out of a 2007 Colloquium Conference jointly sponsored by the Calvin Studies Society and was held at the University of Notre Dame on April 12-14, 2007. The list of contributors, and editor Randall C. Zachman who is associate professor of Reformation [...]

The Basic Ideas of Calvinism written by H. Henry Meeter who served as head of the Bible Department of Calvin College from 1927-1957 has written here a classic that explains Calvinism as more than just a view God but a view of humanity and life. Dr. Meeter (1886-1963) who taught for a number of years [...]

The author Edwin H. Palmer here provides a little but very helpful, beginner’s book that is extremely easy to read and easy to follow on the five points of the theology known as Calvinism. It’s a compressed systematically compressed manual of the scriptures explaining these doctrines of grace. Palmer tells us at the very beginning [...]

With all this resurgence of study in John Calvin the man with the 500th birthday of the pastor-theologian I decided to read an abridged version of the Institutes. This book which is a good introduction to Calvin’s theology is an abridgement of Calvin’s much larger “Institutes.” Tony Lane has paraphrased sections of Battles’ translation into [...]