Institutes of the Christian Religion

Name: Institutes of the Christian Religion
Author: John Calvin

by John Calvin

Systematic theological treatise on Christian doctrine and the knowledge of God

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John Calvin

French theologian whose Institutes of the Christian Religion is the most systematic statement of Protestant theology. His doctrine of predestination and his theocratic government of Geneva shaped Reformed Christianity and had profound effects on Western capitalism, according to Max Weber.

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