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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...

is not simply placed in the hands of the pastors as something ancillary to preaching (despite the fact that Calvin regards them alone as having authority to administer the same)1 but they are stressed as something of particular importance. The focus of church life, that upon which the act of worship depends, is not simply the Word of God proceeding from human lips, but also and above all the sacrament in its objective reality independent of man. Whereas the Word can and must be preached to individuals
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