At least in the popular imagination, especially in our self-obsessed culture, Calvin’s theology is so God-centered that there is no room for human beings. Consequently, it is seen as cold and rationalistic. We can only bow before an utterly sovereign God of blinding majesty. We do not need to go any further than the opening line of his Institutes to conclude otherwise: “Nearly all wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists in two parts: