A penetrating study of Calvin's Institutes and an illumination of Calvin's theology as a whole.This work, by one of the world's pre-eminent Calvin scholars, has long been regarded as a work of the greatest importance. Professor de Kroon is a leading Reformation historian and historian of doctrine. His knowledge of Protestant and Catholic theology in the Reformation era is unparalleled.For all scholars and student of Calvin's theology.

This English translation from the Dutch volume is a study of a quotation by St. Augustine as it was understood in the late medieval period. Marijn de Kroon focuses on how this quotation was interpreted by two theologians: Wessel Gansfort, the Northern humanist and theologian connected to the Devotio moderna and the Brethren of the Common Life, and Martin Bucer, the Protestant reformer who further developed Gansfort's ideas. This study is accompanied by a series of shorter texts, all showing the reception of Augustine's phrase in late medieval theology and contrasting it with...