In her brilliant preface to this edition, Pulitzer Prize—winning novelist Marilynne Robinson makes the clearest connection between John Calvin’s own biblical and patristic heritage and the heritage he in turn left the modern world.

Extracts from Calvin's commentaries topically arranged.

Taken from John Calvin's magnum opus Institutes of the Christian Religion, this book has inspired readers around the world for more than four centuries.

"Institutes of the Christian Religion - Volume I" from Jean Calvin. Influential French theologian and pastor (1509-1564).

"A Treatise on Relics" from Jean Calvin. Influential French theologian and pastor (1509-1564).

The Institutes of the Christian Religion are Calvin's single most important work, and one of the key texts to emerge from the Reformation of the sixteenth century.