The Institutes of Christian Religion

by John Calvin, Tony Lane (Editor), Hilary Osborne (Editor)

Overview

This abridged edition of the Institutes provides a readable and inexpensive sampler of Calvin's greatest work. Lane has condensed the 1559 edition, retaining the heart of Calvin's teachings on all his major themes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801025242
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/01/1987
Edition description:	Abridged
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.57(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Benjamin Wirt Farley is Younts Professor Emeritus of Bible, Religion, and Philosophy at Erskine College. He is the translator of John Calvin's Sermons on the Ten Commandments.

Anthony N. S. Lane (DD, University of Oxford) is professor of historical doctrine at the London School of Theology. He is the author of A Concise History of Christian Thought, John Calvin: Student of the Church Fathers, and Justification by Faith in Catholic—Protestant Dialogue and compiled The Lion Christian Classics Collection. A world—class Calvin scholar, he abridged the Institutes into a popular student edition and also edited the translation of Calvin's Bondage and Liberation of the Will.