Institutes Of The Christian Religion, by John Calvin
I likely would never have read this book, despite my considerable curiosity about Calvin and his religious system [1], had this book not been included as one of the twenty five books that all Christians supposedly should read. I also must state that I appreciated this book a great deal more than I expected to. That is not to say that this was an easy book to read or that I read it quickly–it took me more than a month to read this book all the way through and at times was a very difficult book to read, yet I felt it necessarily to read it honestly and fairly, and I think that Calvin comes off as a far more sympathetic writer than many of his followers do. Part of this has to do with the fact that Calvin is a much…
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