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Readers of John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion often regard this masterwork of doctrine as a cold, sterile, and merely intellectual project. But Matthew Myer Boulton reads it very differently, arguing that for Calvin, Christian doctrine is properly conceived and articulated primarily for the sake of practical Christian formation—the immersive, restorative training for wholeness and...

to the Institutio itself: “it has been my purpose in this labor to prepare and instruct candidates in sacred theology for the reading of the divine Word, in order that they may be able both to have easy access to it and to advance in it without stumbling.” That is, the Institutio is meant to function as a doctrinal complement and framework for his scriptural commentaries, a “sum of religion in all its parts” arranged such that, “if anyone rightly grasps it, it will not be difficult for him to determine
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