John Calvin, in the beginning of his famous work, The Institutes of the Christian Religion, uses the image of spectacles. He describes how the Bible serves as a pair of lenses through which we view the entire world; through which we engage with God, with our neighbor, with ourselves, in light of God’s truth. Not only that, but Calvin describes how theology—or careful thoughts; studied reflection—enables us, like another pair of spectacles, to look at the Bible more closely. It’s that double function