In the spring of 1536 a twenty-six-year-old French refugee in Basel published a small book of six chapters and twenty thousand words titled Christianae Religionis Institutio. By the final 1559 edition it had grown to four Books, eighty chapters, and almost half a million words — and had become the most important systematic theology produced by the Protestant Reformation. This volume contains the first three Books of the 1559 final edition in John Allen's careful 1813 English translation, the standard English edition for the entire nineteenth century: Book I on the knowledge of God as Creator, Book II on the knowledge of God as Redeemer in Christ, Book III on the manner in which the grace of Christ is received and held. The volume opens with Calvin's famous Dedication to King Francis I, one of the great pieces of Reformation pleading. A short editor's preface places the book in its historical and theological context.
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