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Calvin was prolific, and the material written about Calvin’s system of theology is vast. This volume attempts to address the challenge of understanding the whole of Calvin’s theology. Wilhelm Niesel shows the previous efforts to understand Calvin’s thought have compounded the contradictions. He examines the key topics in Calvin’s Institutes, with chapters devoted to the knowledge of God, the...

ourselves to God. In this world where sin dwells within us, even though its dominion has been broken by Christ, we remain engaged in a constant struggle. Penitence, conversion, rebirth, brought about within us by the action of Jesus Christ, mean that He restores us men who are dead in our sins and summons us to militancy against sin. This state of affairs lasts our whole life long and only comes to an end with death.1 No doubt in the struggle laid upon us there is the fact of progress. The process
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