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The Institutes of Christian Religion
Contributor(s): Calvin, John (Author), Lane, Tony (Editor), Osborne, Hilary (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0801025249     ISBN-13: 9780801025242
Publisher: Baker Academic
OUR PRICE: $22.80  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: March 1987
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Annotation: The average reader will enjoy and benefit from the most important theological work ever written, condensed from the 1559 edition and revised in more modern English.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity - History
- Religion | Christian Theology - Systematic
Dewey: 230.42
LCCN: 87033486
Age Level: 18-NA
Grade Level: 13-NA
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (0.90 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Theometrics - Academic
- Theometrics - Reformed
- Chronological Period - 16th Century
- Religious Orientation - Christian
- Topical - Home Schooling
Features: Abridged
 
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Publisher Description:
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 teachings on all his major themes.

Contributor Bio(s): Calvin, John: - Benjamin Wirt Farley is Younts Professor Emeritus of Bible, Religion, and Philosophy at Erskine College. He is the translator of John Calvin's Sermons on the Ten Commandments.Lane, Tony: - Anthony N. S. Lane (DD, University of Oxford) is professor of historical theology at the London School of Theology. He is the author of "A Concise History of Christian Thought", "John Calvin: Student of the Church Fathers", and "Justification by Faith in Catholic-Protestant Dialogue" and compiled "The Lion Christian Classics Collection". A world-class Calvin scholar, he abridged the "Institutes "into a popular student edition and also edited the translation of Calvin's "Bondage and Liberation of the Will".Lane, Tony: - Anthony N. S. Lane (DD, University of Oxford) is professor of historical theology at the London School of Theology. He is the author of A Concise History of Christian Thought, John Calvin: Student of the Church Fathers, and Justification by Faith in Catholic-Protestant Dialogue and compiled The Lion Christian Classics Collection. A world-class Calvin scholar, he abridged the Institutes into a popular student edition and also edited the translation of Calvin's Bondage and Liberation of the Will.
 
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