Description
The Institutes of Christian Religion by The Institutes of Christian Religion / Edited by Tony Lane and Hilary Osborne / BAKER BOOK HOUSE Grand Rapids, Michigan
ISBN: 0801025249
- Publisher : Baker Academic; Reprint edition (April 5, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0801025249
- ISBN-13 : 9780801025242 / 978-0801025242
- Item Weight : 11.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.51 x 0.57 x 8.5 inches
John Calvin's Institutes has established itself as "one of the most important theological works ever written, writes Tony Lane. This abridged edition of the Institutes provides a readable and inexpensive sampler of Calvin's greatest work. Lane has condensed the 1559 edition, retaining the heart of Calvin's teaching on all his major themes. Hilary Osborne has put Henry Beveridge's translation "in simpler and more modern English." The result is "a selection from the Institutes which is manageable for the average modern reader, in terms of length and of intelligibility" Lane reminds us that Calvin designed the Institutes "to be a practical book.... He requires of all doctrine that it be scriptural and that it be useful for Christian living." John Calvin (1509-64) was a French Reformer and theologian who spent most of his adult life in Geneva. Tony Lane has studied Calvin under TH. L. Parker, received a B.D. degree from Oxford University, lectured at London Bible College since 1973, and written Harper's Concise Book of Christian Faith Hilary Osborne, a writer and an editor, acquired her B.A. degree in English from Bristol University.
