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Calvin and the Reformed Tradition: On the Work of Christ and the Order of Salvation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Richard Muller, a world-class Reformation scholar, examines the relationship of Calvin’s theology to the Reformed tradition, indicating Calvin’s place in that tradition as one of several significant second-generation formulators. Muller argues that the Reformed tradition is a diverse and variegated movement not suitably described either as founded solely on the thought of John Calvin or as a...

ought to be understood as the proposal of a complete alternative to the defective master narrative of the older scholarship.6 That older narrative has been characterized by broad theological generalizations resting largely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century dogmatic concerns and by a series of philosophical assumptions grounded on post-Kantian understandings of early modern intellectual history. Both the theological and the philosophical versions of the narrative are characterized by assumptions
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