Piper on Parker on Calvin

Posted on June 18, 2009 
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Piper on Parker on CalvinTo mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, Desiring God have reprinted T.H.L. Parker’s classic 1954 biography.

Not only is it available to be purchased, but a free PDF download is also available – both via this link.

You can see John Piper speak about why they did it at Desiring God.

T.H.L. Parker –

“When I was asked to write a life of Calvin for the S.C.M. Religious Book Club, there were reasons why I was happy to agree. For one thing, it offered a pleasant relief from the arduous task of translating Karl Barth’s Kirkliche Dogmatik into English, which had taken up much of 1950 and 1951. More importantly, there had been no biography of Calvin for many years. Moreover, I saw this as an opportunity to correct some of the commonly held misunderstandings and prejudices clustered around his name. …

Now, what do I at the age of ninety-two make of this book that I wrote in 1952 and 1953 in my mid-thirties?”

– read it and come to your own conclusion.