URL: http://ttpstudents.com/papers/ets/2001/Beeke2001Calvin/Beeke2001Calvin.html

Summary:
by Joel R. Beeke
2001

John Calvin's Institutes have earned him the title of "the preeminent systematician of the Protestant Reformation." His reputation as an intellectual, however, is often seen apart from the vital spiritual and pastoral context in which he wrote his theology. For Calvin, theological understanding and practical piety, truth and usefulness, are inseparable. Theology first of all deals with knowledge--knowledge of God and of ourselves, but there is no true knowledge where there is no true piety...

Category: Historical Theology

Tags: Calvin, Spiritual Formation