Surely He Has Borne Our Griefs
Editor’s Note: The following has been adapted from a chapter in Atonement, edited by Gabriel Fluhrer (P&R, 2010). Find the rest of this chapter and more at ReformedResources.org. Surely he has…
Sinclair Ferguson
To Know Ourselves…
Calvin’s Institutes opens with a strikingly important sentence–crafted first by a young man in his mid-twenties and only fine tuned between its first appearance in 1536 and its final expression…
Calvin on the Sacraments
For some, John Calvin seems to be at his most feisty when he writes on the sacraments. Against those who complain that infant baptism is a travesty of the Gospel, in…
John Calvin on the True Church
When is a “church” not a church? How do we recognize the true church of Jesus Christ? And how do we discern the false? Calvin’s answer, in the Institutes 4.2.1 –…
John Calvin on the Keys of the Kingdom
Calvin’s teaching has never been for shrinking violets, nor is John Calvin himself thought of as “soft.” He uses strong language about those who are enemies of the gospel (“pigs,”…
Blog 221: 4.17.6 – 4.17.11
Calvin’s great concern is that Christians should “rightly use the Lord’s Supper.” He is, from beginning to end, a pastoral theologian (surely any other kind is guilty of a category…
Blog 220: 4.17.1 – 4.17.5
Calvin now turns to the theme of the Lord’s Supper. His concern is twofold: (i) to provide a simple explanation of the Supper and (ii) to resolve difficulties related to…
Blog 219: 4.16.31 – 4.16.32
One of the perplexities we modern Christians encounter in admiring magisterial reformers like Calvin is the severity of their attitude to, and treatment of, Anabaptists. In Calvin’s case this may…
Blog 218: 4.16.25 – 4.16.30
Calvin was, and remains, a theologian of the ages. Of course his theology comes to us clothed in the garments of the sixteenth century. But some things never change–including many…
Blog 217: 4.16.20 – 4.16.24
For some, Calvin seems to be at his most feisty when he writes on the sacraments. Against those who complain that infant baptism is a travesty of the gospel, he stoutly…