J. I. Packer on 3 Reasons You Should Read Calvin’s Institutes

Not everyone finds reading John Calvin a spiritually profitable experience.

The great literary critic and professor Alan Jacobs recently wrote, after returning to Calvin’s Institutes:

I consistently find him to be dour, rigid, cold, insensitive to the human condition, and prone to make vast theological generalizations from a handful of biblical passages while ignoring the greater part of the biblical witness.

(Jacobs confesses that his unpleasant interactions with Calvinists over the years has probably influenced his reading.)

But not everyone agrees with Jacobs. Read More

Also See:
The Institutes of the Christian Religion (Read Online)
The Institutes of the Christian Religion (Downloadable PDF)