Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin Review
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2025
- As a continuation in our series Who Were the Puritans?, in this video, I review John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion (1541 Edition). This is a fantastic book, and I hope that this review allowed that to be seen.
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Thank you ! I have this book of the institutes of Calvin !
It's a great book!
Do you know how much of an abridgment this is relative to the McNeill 2-volume edition? I'm intrigued by this as a 1-volume systematic but I'm not sure how much is lost.
Totally agree with your sentiment about the volume of what these theologians were able to accomplish by God's grace, in such short lives. I aspire to be so set apart for the work of the Lord that I would be half as productive as these guys in what the Lord has called me to!
Hello! Thanks for watching! I have that addition as well, but didn't think to compare them. That edition (as best I can tell), consists of a section of the final 1559 edition. McNiell's isn't so much an abridged edition as it is a complete section of the full work (if that makes sense). So in theory, this book would contain more topical information, though the McNeil set may have more information on specific topics. Does that makes sense?
Amen, brother! I pray that God will raise up men like them in today's world.
God bless,
Davis
The Battles/McNeil 2 Volume edition is the complete 1559 edition.
Calvin would be proud in your use (misuse) of his ICR
Haha😂
This was the first book outside the bible I've ever read . I never knew what I was getting my self into because I was ever unread person.
That's awesome! I hope this channel helps you find more books to read.
God bless,
Davis
I'm going through the whole Institutes little by little. Currently on chapter 7. You can see from early on how he cracks the whip on the Catholic church even if he hasn't mentioned it by name yet.
Wonderful review man, not gotten to Calvin yet since turning to Christ i have had a big Francis Turretin phase. And now i'm reading Stephen Charnock's beautiful Discourses on the Existence and Attributes of God that was recently republished in two nice volumes which if i'm not mistaken can be seen in your library. Hope to hear your thoughts on it one day!
Thank you very much! Ooh how is Turretin? I have yet to read him. Oh very cool! That is indeed Charnock behind me. Good eye! Currently, I'm slowly working through Robert Traill's works, but after that, I intend to dive into Charnock, and eventually review them.
Thank you again!
God bless,
Davis
@@petrapublications Turretin is very nice, sorta insane how precise yet readable someone can be in their systematics. Definitively worthy of the title "Prince of the Scholastics"!
God bless!
@@cyber5659AMen
After reading this edition it's amazing to see how close Calvin and Luther were in their theology.
I enjoyed it! Thank you.
Great help.
Glad it was helpful to you!
God bless,
Davis
Robert White translated this edition of the Institutes. 😊 White is a godly man. And his translation is stylistically beautiful. In fact, I find the style of White's translation superior to the most commonly used English translations of Calvin's Institutes - Allen, Beveridge, Battles, McKee.
I understand why White did the 1541 edition of the Institutes (it's more pastoral, less polemical, less technically philosophical), but I wish White had also translated the last edition of the Institutes published in 1559/1560 (Latin/French) because I actually love digging into the polemics or apologetics and debates as well as the technical philosophy.
Short of White translating the 1559/1560 Institutes, I look forward to Crossway's new translation of the 1559 edition of the Institutes by Blacketer (primarily, Lane is the editor), which is slated for some time in 2025, I think, though I imagine the publication date could easily be pushed back too. It'll be the first major translation of the Institutes since c. 1960 with the Battles (and McNeil) translation. Crossway has a 50-something page document from Blacketer and Lane on their website about why a new translation of the 1559 Institutes is needed, not least because the current scholarly standard Battles is going on 60+ years old, but also because Battles has quite a bit of issues as it is. Read their document for all the details. That said, I recently purchased Blacketer's new translation of Calvin's On the Christian Life (which is taken from Book 3, chapter 6) of the 1559 Institutes, so it is a little foretaste of what's to come. Blacketer also has some samples of his forthcoming translation in the Crossway document. I personally still prefer White's style over Blacketer based on what Blacketer has published with Crossway thus far, but Blacketer is promising. I guess we'll see what it's really like when it is finally published next year or later!
In any case, Calvin is excellent, the font of Reformed theology, and as John Frame he said - drink deeply from the font! 😊
I love the puritans..and that's a great review
Thanks for watching! The Puritans were fantastic!
God bless,
Davis
Providential! I have been side eyeing my copy on the shelf, and thinking I should get back at it.
You're not kidding about his age. I'm humbled when I think of Edwards, Brainerd, Spurgeon --- so, so many were graciously gifted with piety at an early age.
As for it being a book you recommend all Christians to read - have you ever read William Law's Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life? 😳 If not, definitely add it to your list. I purchased a copy for our elders for Christmas. Law was said to have influenced Whitefield, and I can see why. I don't know if I've read a better work on personal holiness and practical religion. So good!
Praise the Lord!
It's truly amazing! So many that were by God's grace, zealous, gifted, Christ centered, and pious..
I have not read that! I need to make a new list! haha. I will look into that one as well! Thanks for the recommendations!
Good review 👍
Thank you!
Hey brother came across your channel recently and wanted to learn a little more about you if that’s ok. Are you attending seminary right now? And if so, which one? Thanks!
Hi Timothy! Thanks for watching! I just did a live stream where I answered questions like this. I'm planning on doing another if you have any other questions. I am still in college. I haven't yet decided on which seminary to attend.
God bless,
Davis
The first time I read Calvin's Institutes, his clarity and breadth of Biblical Knowledge really encouraged me to read his works.
The 1541 edition (Calvin's essential edition) of his Institutes of the Christian Religion is a great introduction and this is an excellent translation from the French by Robert White. While the 'Battles' edition is widely acknowledged as the fundamental one, this is more than adequate.
Banner of Truth also published "Knowing God and Ourselves" (reading Calvin's Institutes Devotionally) by David B Calhoun, which is a great help to reading the Institutes.
Calvin's motivation was to produce a guide to reading the Bible and also supply a theological companion to his commentaries.
You will receive great benefit from reading the Institutes, Sermons and Commentaries by John Calvin. He wrote with a pastors heart and a passion to draw the hearts of men and women to the Word of God. Equipping them to live godly lives and reach out to the lost with the gospel of grace and all to the glory of God.
GREAT VIDEO
Glad you enjoyed it!
God bless,
Davis
Can you make a review for every chapter? XD
haha
Hey bro maybe do some more study before making videos like this. We can't heap the Puritans into one theological system. Both Owen and Baxter were Puritans, but very different theologies, and various distinctions from Calvin. Also, a more precise influence on the Puritans in terms of a 'theology text book' was Turretin.
Is the Latin edition more accurate in general or is it more literal than the French edition?
I don't know if I would say it's more *accurate* perse. Calvin wrote the French version to be more accessible to readers of his time, so it's possible that it is also easier to read just because of that. But it could also be that the translators were different, and thus they made things distinguishable. I really don't know because I can't read Latin or French, so it's all speculation. The English versions do read differently, though. Hope that helps.
Thanks for watching!
God bless,
Davis
As a Lutheran with much interest in and sympathy with Calvin ("getting off his boat", however and sternly, when it comes to Calvin's denigration of the true and full meaning and efficacy and real presence in the Eucharist and some of that in Baptism), I've tried over the years to read the Institutes. For a non-Calvinist, it is expecting too much to read a translation of the fullest and latest editions that Calvin prepared. Fortunately, there is an English translation of the 1536 edition, which makes the Instututes more accessible to those who balk at the sheer lengths of the longer editions that Calvin produced. I would say to the average Lutheran or other non-Calfinist reader, to get the 1536 Institutes and not to get too bogged down in the footnotes. Calvin deserves to be read by ANY Christian, so make the effort, but don't torture yourself into neglecting him necessarily by confronting the more maasive editions (as translated into English) of The Institutes.
Accursed Calvin even worse than Luther. Both in Hell.
I’m always really appreciative of people like you; I could have spent my whole life believing a reprobate, but now, because of your wisdom and insight, my mind has been changed and my soul saved. Bless you.
Wow, Christians, good news! We finally have one who went beyond and back to give us the inside info on who made it and who didn't. Thank Lord for these luminaries who enlighten us simple plebes. 😂😂😂