John Calvin is one of the church’s greatest theologians, and Calvinism one of the Western world’s most influential intellectual movements. Calvin was a theologian, pastor, biblical exegete, and tireless apologist for Reformed Christianity. His theological works, biblical commentaries, tracts, treatises, and letters helped establish the Reformation as a legitimate and thriving religious movement throughout Europe and the world.
To celebrate John Calvin’s 500th birthday in 2009, Logos Bible Software has assembled the John Calvin 500 Collection. At 108 volumes, the John Calvin 500 Collection is the largest collection of Calvin material available in the English-speaking world!
This massive collection contains all of Calvin’s Commentaries, five editions of The Institutes in three languages, four volumes of The Letters and correspondence, dozens of tracts and treatises, ten biographies, and twenty volumes of secondary literature on the history and influence of Calvinism. In short, this is the definitive collection of Calvin material.
No theologian has been as acclaimed or assailed as much as Calvin. Calvinism has spawned movements and sparked controversy throughout the centuries. Wars have been fought both to defend and destroy it, and its later proponents began political and theological revolutions in Western Europe and America. The breadth and depth of the engagement with Calvin’s works since they first appeared four centuries ago—and their continuous publication since then—testifies to Calvin’s importance and lasting value for the church today. Thinking Christians from the twenty-first century who ignore Calvin’s writings do so at their own peril.