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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...

This does not prevent us from freely pouring out our cares unto Him. We are in fact exhorted to do so; for by so doing we testify that our God is One who is sensitive to our dire need.1 Hence submission to the will of God does not mean that we must give up prayer.2 “Not in vain does the heavenly Father declare that our sole help and chance of rescue lies in calling upon His name; for when we do so we invoke the reality of His providence—the fact that He cares and watches over us; the power with which
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