He man Quote by Oliver D. Crisp

Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.

— Oliver D. Crisp

I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it had never…

— Marilynne Robinson

[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where this is…

— Marilynne Robinson

[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.

— Oliver D. Crisp

[John Calvin's] treatment of the person and work of Christ, of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, of prayer and liturgy,…

— Oliver D. Crisp

[John Calvin's] Humanist training makes him an excellent writer. What is more, he is as relevant today as he was 500 years ago.

— Oliver D. Crisp

“In short, Calvin has been given too much blame by critics and too much credit by fans. His real genius is to be found…

— Michael S. Horton

“After the reading of Scripture, which I strenuously inculcate… more than any other… I recommend that the Commentaries of Calvin be read… in the…

— Anonymous

[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on…

— Oliver D. Crisp

One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

— Alister E. McGrath

I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.

— Oliver D. Crisp

“Then suddenly—or so it seemed to me—in the past two years Calvinism began emerging as an issue everywhere. Perhaps I am just waking up,…

— Jerry L. Walls