Sanctification as a Human Process: Reading Calvin Alongside Child Development Theory

Carpenter, Angela

doi:10.1353/sce.2015.0012

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Calvin and the Resignification of the World

Sanchez

2019

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Writing Reform The Genre of the 1559 Institutio Christianae Religionis Tis those whose cause my former booklet pled, Whose zeal to learn has wrought this tome instead. I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write. Jean Calvin, final preface to the Institutio Christianae Religionis 1 These are the two epigraphs that close the final preface of Calvin's final edition of the Institutio Christianae Religionis. 2 If this book proceeds from something like an axiom, it is that Calvin cared about writing, and treated it as a useful practice for learning. Writing, for Calvin, is an important way to respond to the conditions one faces. It is also a useful tool for clarifying existing relationships and performing new ones. He wrote diligently throughout his life. As a university student, he wrote a commentary on Seneca's De Clementia. 3 It demonstrated the extent to which Calvin had dedicated himself to reading such authors as Aristotle, Cicero, and Pliny the Elder. It also demonstrated how much he enjoyed their writing, weaving their prose into his own prose often with evident humor and appreciation. In conversation with these authors, he developed several fundamental preoccupations that would remain evident 1 Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, ed. McNeill, trans. Battles (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1960), 5. With the exception of prefatory material, all subsequent citations of the Institutio will occur in text and follow the standard practice of citing book, chapter, and section: i.e., 1.1.1.

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