On the Christian Life: A New Translation

by John Calvin

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2024

Overview

New Translation of John Calvin’s Classic Work Explores What It Means to Live the Christian Life

For centuries, believers have poured over John Calvin’s classic work On the Christian Life to answer a fundamental question: How should I live out my faith? Calvin suggests that understanding theology is trivial if the gospel has yet to “penetrate into the most intimate affection of the heart, take hold of the soul, and have an effect on the whole human being.”

Intended to help believers in all seasons of life, this concise book explores themes such as self-denial, taking up one’s cross, submitting to God, enduring suffering for the sake of righteousness, and meditating on the life to come. Readers will reflect on their lives as Christians and be inspired to lean on the grace of Jesus for their salvation alone. Adapted from the 1559 edition of Institutes of the Christian Religion, On the Christian Life provides practical excerpts for readers of John Calvin.

Explores the Christian Life: Practical themes include self-denial, taking up one’s cross, submitting to God, suffering for the sake of righteousness

Classic Work: Adapted from the 1559 edition of Institutes of the Christian Religion, On the Christian Life provides practical excerpts for readers of John Calvin

Valuable Contributors: Written by John Calvin, foreword by Anthony N. S. Lane, and text translated by Raymond A. Blacketer

Key Features

• Explores self-denial, taking up one’s cross, submitting to God, suffering for the sake of righteousness
• Adapted from the 1559 edition of Institutes of the Christian Religion
• Translated by Raymond A. Blacketer

Contents

• Introduction by Anthony N. S. Lane

Book III: How We Obtain the Grace of Christ. The Benefits That Come to Us and the Fruits that Follow from that Grace

• Chapter 6: The Life of a Christian. First, the Arguments that Scripture Uses to Encourage Us to that Life
• Chapter 7: The Sum of the Christian Life, in Which We Discuss the Denial of Ourselves
• Chapter 8: Bearing the Cross: An Aspect of Self-Denial
• Chapter 9: Meditation on the Future Life
• Chapter 10: How We Must Use the Present Life and Its Means of Support

Product Details

• Title: On the Christian Life: A New Translation
• Author: John Calvin
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 96
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Christian life; Reformed Church › Doctrines
• ISBNs: 9781433592539, 9781433592553, 9781433592546, 1433592533, 143359255X, 1433592541
• Resource ID: LLS:CHRSTNLFTRNSLTN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-06-25T21:12:27Z

About John Calvin

John Calvin (1509–1564), one of the most important thinkers in church history, was a prominent French theologian during the Protestant Reformation and the father of Calvinism. His theological works, biblical commentaries, tracts, treatises, sermons, and letters helped establish the Reformation throughout Europe.

Calvinism has spawned movements and sparked controversy throughout the centuries. Calvin began his work in the church at the age of 12, intending to train for the priesthood. Calvin attended the Collège de la Marche in Paris at 14, before studying law at the University of Orléans and continuing his studies at the University of Bourges.

In 1532, Calvin’s first published work appeared: a commentary on Seneca’s De Clementia. The controversy of calling for reform in the Catholic Church disciplined Calvin in his writing project, and he began working on the first edition of The Institutes of the Christian Religion, which appeared in 1536. Calvin’s Commentaries and The Letters of John Calvin are also influential; both appear in the Calvin 500 Collection.