http://books.google.com/books?id=qOeT6QmKXs8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=john+calvin+commentaries&hl=en&ei=P3WSTJSwA8SblgeRkvSmCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
Calvin's Commentary on Joshua is a commendable read. Sagacious, terse, grammatico-historically oriented, and--as expected--quite theocentric and covenantal.
Arminius was probably right--that Calvin alone was probably "heads and shoulders" above all previous church fathers, including Augustine.
Arminius's proposition is worth entertaining and examining more fully--a huge, but worthy task.
Many comment on Calvin through received tradition and secondary sources. It is far better to return to the sources--at fontes. Calvin is readable and lucid--for Theologians and Pastors, even serious Churchmen, he is not inaccessible.
We recently read some comments about the UK, to wit, that no one appreciates the biblical narrative--to do so invites ridicule. Rather overstated we suspect, but probably with some truth. Reading Calvin alongside an English Bible is edifying.
2 comments:
Wow neat! This is a really great site! I am wondering if anyone else has come across something
exactly the same in the past? Keep up the great work!
Will finish Calvin on Joshua this weekend. Up through chapter 16.
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