Life in God: John Calvin, Practical Formation, and the Future of Protestant Theology

by Matthew Myer Boulton

Contemplates Calvin's Institutes as practical spiritual theology
For many today, John Calvin is best known as an austere, strictly intellectual teacher of Protestant doctrine. But Matthew Myer Boulton reads him very differently, arguing that for Calvin, Christian theology is properly conceived and articulated primarily for the sake of everyday, practical formation through the church's treasury of spiritual disciplines.
Although Calvin famously...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080286564X
• ISBN13: 9780802865649
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"