Blogging the Institutes

Posted on January 10, 2009 
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John CalvinGraduates of Moore College will long remember that reading through John Calvin’s Institutes was a requirement of their course. Asked about the reason for the requirement, former Principal Broughton Knox wryly quipped that it was so students would finish at least one book while at College!

Last month, the team at Reformation21 began ‘blogging through the Institutes’ to challenge others to read this key Christian document. It’s a big challenge!

Ligon Duncan writes – “Why should you read through Calvin’s Institutes with the lads here at ref21 as we blog through this work every weekday of 2009? Ten reasons:

1. Because it the most important book written in the last 500 years.
2. Because it is foundational for every Reformed systematic theology ever since.
3. Because Calvin was the best exegete in the history of Christianity…”

Follow Reformation21’s Blogging the Institutes here.