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The Formal Dialectical Rationalism of Calvin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2010

Henry Jacob Weber
Affiliation:
Dean and Professor of Theology and Church History, Bloomfield Theological Seminary, Bloomfield, N. J.

Extract

What William Pierson Merrill recently said of the Creed of the Presbyterian Church, i.e., that it is “comprehensive,” is true also of the Institutes of Calvin: the work is an inclusive document; it comprehends varying, even conflicting views. Calvin endeavors to press “life and reality” into a system of harmonious thought. In its sixth edition of the Institutes the Presbyterian Board of Publication rightly affirms, that Calvin's great natural abilities, his profound erudition, his well-balanced and discriminating judgment … eminently fitted him to prepare such a work, in which the doctrines of the Gospel are so clearly developed and harmonized.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Church History 1928

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