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In many ways, John Calvin has shaped the history of Protestantism even more than Martin Luther himself. Book four of John Calvin’s monumentally influential work of systematic theology, Institutes of the Christian Religion, gets to the heart of the disagreement between Catholics and Protestants. Armstrong’s work is an in-depth critique of the major themes of this portion, from a biblical and...

Spirit, a decree which our opponents endeavour to annul when they pretend that the Church is guided by the Spirit without the word. (IV, 8:13) … the ministers of Satan, whose usual practice is to hold the Scriptures in derision, … (IV, 17:48) The Catholic Church doesn’t create dogmas with utter disregard for Scripture (quite the contrary). Calvin fails to document what he charges. We make no such dichotomy. Calvin does because he thinks in “either/or” terms: for him, if there is true Church authority,
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