Calvin On Prayer, by John Calvin
It has been a strange phenomenon of my reading that I have found Calvin as a writer far more appealing than I have found his followers, and certainly far more interesting. Reading Calvin has not, alas, changed my opinion on Calvinism [1], but it has given me at least some interesting insight concerning Calvin’s own thinking and behavior, and has given me at least some degree of interest in how it was that Calvin was so honest about his background as a Hellenistic Christian writer who even viewed the aprocryphal book of Baruch as scripture while those who followed after him showed themselves rather ignorant both about the Greek philosophy that intrigued Calvin as well as the distinction between Calvin’s own way of thinking and the biblical one, a distinction which is definitely in evidence here. We may see Calvin as a rather severe…
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