Book 1 is entitled 'The Knowledge of the God the Creator,' and this reading includes Book 1, Chapters 9-10-11-12.
Chapter 9: All the Principles of Piety Subverted by Fanatics, Who Substitute Revelations for Scripture – Three Sections
Chapter 10: In Scripture, the True God Opposed, Exclusively, to All the gods of the Heathen – Three Sections
Chapter 11: Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God – The Setting Up of Idols. A Defection from the True God – Sixteen Sections
Chapter 12: God Distinguished from Idols, That He May be the Exclusive Object of Worship – Three Sections
It would not be an exaggeration to say that Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion would be among the ten most influential writings in the history of the world. It is hard for us to imagine how far Calvin had come in his time, and, if you know the thought of his day, how much he has influenced our world.
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This man, undoubtedly the greatest of Protestant divines, and perhaps, after St. Augustine, the most perseveringly followed by his disciples of any Western writer on theology, was born at Noyon in Picardy, France, 10 July, 1509, and died at Geneva, 27 May, 1564.
