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Reading Calvin's Institutes
Written by M G Smith
In 2009 many are planning to mark the five hundredth anniversary of the
birth of John Calvin. Conferences are being planned; books are being
written; but what better way to mark the occasion than reading some of
Calvin's voluminous writings?
The Bible account of the fall and sin, instead of vilifying human nature, implies the highest view of man and his constitution. ... It is mere perversion of thought and language, however, to represent man's experience of moral evil as not a fall but a rise.