Institutes of the Christian Religion
by John Calvin · first published 2009
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Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin Regardless of whether you are Protestant or not (or religious or not) - understanding the theological philosophy of one of the great thinkers of the Protestant Reformation is a wonderful…
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite classic books?” ↗…happy to see something like this posted and upvoted on HN. The first time I read through Confessions and City of God, I thought they were both very tough reads (thou, thee, etc.), much like John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion (which I haven't actually finished yet), but very good reads nonetheless, full of arguments/debates on many hard topics that are applicable even today. Like this article mentions, you get to see Augustine's…
on “On St. Augustine's Confessions” ↗…them, with the whole inscription in Latin). Academic books were written in Latin and were dated with Roman numerals because, well, they were written in Latin. For example here's a cover of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, 4th Latin edition, printed in 1562, with the year of edition in Roman numerals: https://archive.org/details/institutiochrist1592calv/page/n3... (see page 4 of the book browser) Films, as creative work,…
on “Why do studios use Roman numerals in the copyright notice in the end credits?” ↗…Homo Anselm, Proslogion Augustine, City of God Augustine, Confessions Augustine, On Christian Doctrine William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life Luther, The Bondage of the Will Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion Pascal, Pensées All of these are in public domain.
on “Standard Ebooks” ↗…comparisons to reformation ideology wouldn't be particularly meaningful. There's a also a bit of irony that you're presenting the secular view of predestination. As someone who once had a multi-volume set of "Institutes of the Christian Religion" next to him on his bookshelf, the protestant conception of predestination had very little to do with "offloading of freedom and responsibility" both in theory and in practice. Predestination is founded…
on “LLM Inevitabilism” ↗