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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 book as a necessary part of his equipment.”1 In similar terms Calvin describes his intention in the introduction to the French translation of the Institutes. The work is to serve the purpose of finding the sum of what God wished to teach us in His Word. “To this end he proposes to treat the principal and most important things which are contained in Christian philosophy.”2 According to these fundamental considerations it seems to be the aim of Calvin in the Institutes to attain and expound a
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