Book · 1536 · Nonfiction

Institutes of the Christian Religion

Name: Institutes of the Christian Religion
Author: John Calvin

Hendrickson Publishers · 1059 pages

★ 6.8 editorial score

Calvin set all of Protestant belief in order: who God is, what humanity became, and how grace arrives unearned to those God has chosen. Reformed churches have run on this book ever since.

Genre

Systematic theology Theology

Subject

Christianity The Reformation

Time

1536Depicts The Renaissance

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