This is the definitive English-language version of 1 of the huge works of the Christian church. All prior editions--in Latin, French, German, and English--have been collated; references and notes were confirmed, corrected, and extended; and new bibliographies were added.The translation preserves the rugged energy and vividness of Calvin's writing, but in addition conforms to trendy English and renders heavy theological phrases in uncomplicated language. the result's a translation that achieves a excessive measure of accuracy and while is eminently readable.
Long well-known for the standard of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics presents students and scholars with sleek English translations of a few of the main major Christian theological texts in background. via those works--each written sooner than the top of the 16th century--contemporary readers may be able to have interaction the information that experience formed Christian theology and the church in the course of the centuries.
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