Calvin's Institutes in the Continental Line
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A reading of the 1559 Institutes book by book, tracing its structure and its reception in Reformed orthodoxy at Heidelberg, Leiden and Geneva. Selected chapters are read in Latin beside the English, and Spanish readers use Cipriano de Valera's translation of 1597.
These lists, taken from the school's verified research, are studied on your own at your own pace. The school's own classes, written as full teaching, open one at a time.
How to begin
- Enroll with a free account so the school keeps your place.
- Open the first class, lecture or reading and follow the order of the syllabus.
- Mark each lecture, reading and assignment complete when you finish it.
- Choose a weekly study goal to see when you will finish.
Syllabus
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Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.
- Calvin's Institutes (24 lectures, with study guides and transcripts) David B. Calhoun (Covenant Theological Seminary, Presbyterian Church in America) 24 lectures Open source Doctrinal Covenant Theological Seminary via The Gospel Coalition Courses
- The Theology of Calvin's Institutes (Books 1-2), Reformed Academy course R. Carlton Wynne (Orthodox Presbyterian Church; Westminster Theological Seminary) Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum / Reformed Academy Host Richard Pratt is PCA and the lesson scripts are Reformed, but the inserted 'forum' interview clips include non-confessional evangelicals (e.g. Craig Keener, continuationist; John Oswalt, Wesleyan; Darrell Bock, dispensational). Thirdmill also lets lessons be used across traditions, so canon and inspiration are...
- Meeter Center free lectures (e.g. David Noe, 'Theodore Beza as Exegete, Humanist, and Polemicist', 10 Nov 2016; Matthew Tuininga, 'Politics and the Kingdom of God', 6 Mar 2018) Various Calvin scholars Open source Supplementary H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Calvin University