John Calvin's Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life



John Calvin's Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Introduction

Calvin makes an attempt in pasturing his Christian readers with a look into the eternal purposes regarding all the pain and suffering. Calvin encourages the suffering souls to understand that Jesus Christ was an example of the ultimate suffering servant of God and that temporal afflictions of a man are always sent from the Lord so as to cause us to fully rely on Jesus Christ and promote sobriety, obedience, godliness and righteousness. The booklet is a good, understandable read as it is considered as a distillation of the various portions of Calvin's institutes. This work must dispel the notion of falsehood that that Calvin is only interested in predestination.

Discussion

This devotional classic booklet, John Calvin persuades the readers to apply the Christian life in a very balanced manner to heart, mind and hand. This booklet lays great stress upon the importance of an active devotedly Christian life, rather than focusing more on the worldliness. In both, spirit and style the book is similar to the Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress and Augustine's confessions, (Calvin, 2004). However, the intensity of this booklet sets it different from the others and makes it easily accessible for all those readers who want to follow the footsteps of the Christ in their everyday life, (Whitney, 1997).

Themes of this Booklet

The themes of the chapters generally comprise of self-denial, obedience, the importance of a cross and most importantly how shall one live. The Golden Booklet of the true Christian life has been inspiring the readers for more than four centuries, and now in the paper form, this booklet will guide the readers how to spend their Biblical life. This is a volume that has been taken from the third volume of ...