Next year the church will celebrate the 500th birthday of John Calvin. Be prepared to see a glut of books on the man for the next year. This newest volume, out soon from P&R, looks great.
A Theological Guide to Calvin’s Institutes: Essays and Analysis (Hardcover)
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Publisher: P&R Publishing Company
Author: Hall, David W., Lillback, Peter
ISBN-13: 9781596380912
Binding: Hardcover
List Price: $25.99 $35.99
Westminster Bookstore: $16.89 $23.39
Expected arrival: June 2008
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CONTENTS
Foreword ix
J.I. Packer
1. The Historical Context of the Institutes as a Work in Theology 1
William S. Barker
2. A Primal and Simple Knowledge (1.1–5) 16
K. Scott Oliphint
3. Calvin’s Doctrine of Holy Scripture (1.6–10) 44
Robert L. Reymond
4. The True and Triune God: Calvin’s Doctrine of the Holy Trinity (1.11–13) 65
Douglas F. Kelly
5. Election and Predestination: The Sovereign Expressions of God (3.21–24) 90
R. Scott Clark
6. Creation and Providence (1.14, 16–18 ) 123
Joseph A. Pipa Jr.
7. A Shattered Vase: The Tragedy of Sin in Calvin’s Thought (1.15; 2.1–4) 151
Michael S. Horton
8. Calvin’s Interpretation of the History of Salvation: The Continuity and Discontinuity of the Covenant (2.10–11) 168
Peter A. Lillback
9. The Mediator of the Covenant (2.12–15) 205
Derek W. H. Thomas
10. Calvin on Christ’s Saving Work (2.16–17) 226
Robert A. Peterson
11. Justification and Union with Christ (3.11–18 ) 248
Richard B. Gaffin Jr.
12. Appropriating Salvation: The Spirit, Faith and Assurance, and Repentance (3.1–3, 6–10) 270
Joel R. Beeke
13. The Law and the Spirit of Christ (2.6–9) 301
David Clyde Jones
14. Ethics: The Christian Life and Good Works according to Calvin (3.6–10, 17–19) 320
William Edgar
15. Prayer: “The Chief Exercise of Faith” (3.20) 347
David B. Calhoun
16. Calvin, Worship, and the Sacraments (4.13–19) 368
W. Robert Godfrey
17. John Calvin’s View of Church Government (4.3–9) 390
Joseph H. Hall
18. Calvin on Human Government and the State (4.20) 411
David W. Hall
19. Calvin’s Doctrine of the Last Things: The Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting (3.25 et al.) 441
Cornelis P. Venema
20. Essential Calvin Bibliography 468
Richard C. Gamble and Zachary John Kail
Index of Scripture 481
Index of Subjects and Names 489
Tony Reinke 
This looks phenomenal! Thanks for providing the contents.
I am very excited to get this work. I was wondering if there was a copy of Calvin’s Institutes that has a better binding than John T. McNeill’s edition? I like it, but it seems to fall apart easily. Thanks for your wonderful reviews and the section on the Purtian library.
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