Calvin: A Guide for the Perplexed (Paperback)

Introduction 1 Orientation -who Calvin was - Calvin and 'Calvinism' - idolising and demonising - recent scholarhip - anachronism - philosophy. 2. Knowledge of God and self - "Sensus Divinitatis" - Revelation - 'Reformed' epistemology 3. God in Trinity 4. Jesus Christ, his person and his work 5. Grace and faith - the will - predestination - faith and assurance - justification and sanctification (two-fold righteousness) 6. Ethics - natural law/common grace - the revealed law and its 'uses' - what is valuable - intention 7. Church and State - word and sacrament - Two Kingdoms - magistrate - resistance 8. Calvin and Calvinism - Kendall - Puritanism - Scholasticism - Warfield Further Reading Index