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On the Christian Life (Golden Booklet)

On the Christian Life (Golden Booklet)

by John Calvin

John Calvin (1509–1564) was a French theologian who became the leading figure of the Reformation in Geneva. Trained in law and humanist scholarship, he published the first edition of his Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536, at twenty-six, and spent his life preaching, lecturing, and organizing the Genevan church. His commentaries on nearly the whole Bible and the final 1559 Institutes anchor our Reformed collection.

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First published
1550
Category
Holiness
Length
18k words · about 1 hour
Chapters
6

About this book

John Calvin's little 'golden book' of the Christian life, a short treatise drawn from the Institutes and published on its own from 1550. Calvin sketches the pattern of the godly life: self-denial, cross-bearing, meditation on the future life, and the right use of earthly things. Brief enough to read in a sitting, dense enough to ponder for years.

Contents

  1. Outline
  2. Chapter I. Life of a Christian Man. Scriptural Arguments Exhorting to it. 🔒
  3. Chapter II. A Summary of the Christian Life. Of Self-Denial. 🔒
  4. Chapter III. Of Bearing the Cross—One Branch of Self-Denial. 🔒
  5. Chapter IV. Of Meditating on the Future Life. 🔒
  6. Chapter V. How to Use the Present Life, and the Comforts of It. 🔒

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