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The Faith of the Church: A Commentary on the Apostle’s Creed according to Calvin’s Catechism is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Apostles’ Creed presents the foundation of Christian faith. The interpretive version of the Apostles’ Creed formulated by the Swiss reformer John Calvin in his catechism has been the basis of Protestant theological education for centuries. In The Faith of the Church, Karl Barth—one of the powerful and enduring theologians of modern Protestantism—reinterprets the Apostles’ Creed according to...

are secondary ends: family, country, profession, civilization, etc., but all these refer back to the primary end. Before defining the knowledge of God, Calvin takes two indirect approaches so as to give us a better view of it. QUESTION 2. What reason have you for saying so?—Because he created us for this, and placed us in the world, that he might be glorified in us. And it is certainly proper that our life, of which he is the beginning, be directed to his glory. Calvin considers the knowledge of
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