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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year

著者: Christopher Michael Patton
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概要

Ever stared at John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion on your shelf and thought, “One day I’ll finally read that… but where would I even start?”

This podcast is for that moment.

Calvin’s Institutes in a Year is a guided, day-by-day journey through one of the most influential works in Christian theology. Together, we read through the entire Institutes over the course of a full year—one manageable section at a time—so that a book many admire from a distance finally becomes something you actually finish.

Each daily episode is short, focused, and intentional. We keep the pace steady, the sections approachable, and the explanations clear, helping you follow Calvin’s arguments without feeling buried under the weight of a theological classic. No rushing. No intimidation. Just faithful reading, thoughtful reflection, and steady progress.

This is not a lecture series and it’s not a shortcut. It’s a companion for the long walk—designed for pastors, students, Reformed readers, and anyone who wants to understand historic Christian doctrine at a deeper level by actually reading the text.

If you want more than just listening, you’re invited to read along with us at ThroughTheChurchFathers.com where you’ll find the full reading schedule, written texts, and the ability to comment and discuss alongside others making the same journey.

If the Institutes has always felt important but unreachable, this is your invitation to finally open it—one day at a time.

We begin January 1, 2026

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  • Calvin's Institues: February 3
    2026/02/03

    The doctrine of the Trinity is not a puzzle for clever minds but a boundary line that keeps the church worshiping the true God rather than a god of our own speculation. Today Calvin tightens the distinction that must be held without tearing the unity: one divine essence fully present in Father, Son, and Spirit, distinguished not by parts of deity but by personal relations that do not divide God. He then turns to the recurring threat—old heresies wearing new clothes—exposing how theories that reduce the Son and Spirit to projections, fragments, or derived divinity destroy the gospel itself, because they turn Christ into something less than Yahweh. Calvin insists that Scripture’s divine titles, divine works, and divine worship given to Christ cannot be explained away without blasphemy, and therefore the Son is not a second-class God, not a borrowed God, but the one God with the Father and the Spirit, confessed with reverence and guarded with care.

    Readings: John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapter 13 (Sections 19–23)

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    12 分
  • Calvin's Institutes: February 2
    2026/02/02

    If the Son is truly divine, then the Spirit cannot be a lesser afterthought, a mere force, or an impersonal influence—and Calvin refuses to let the Bible be softened into that kind of half-truth. Today’s reading gathers Scripture’s testimony and the believer’s lived experience into a single confession: the Spirit was active before the world had form, sustains creation by divine power, grants new birth, distributes gifts with sovereign will, searches the depths of God, and is identified as God by the apostles themselves. Calvin then anchors the unity of the Triune name in baptism, insisting that the one name into which we are baptized must be the name of the one God, and therefore Father, Son, and Holy Spirit share one undivided essence. The result is reverent clarity: real distinction without division, mystery without confusion, worship without idolatry.

    Readings: John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapter 13 (Sections 14–18)

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    11 分
  • Calvin's Institutes: February 1
    2026/02/01

    Unity is not a late Christian invention—it is the native air of Scripture, because the one God has always made Himself known through the one Mediator. Today Calvin presses the Old Testament appearances of “the Angel of the Lord” until the reader feels the weight of the claim: this Angel receives divine honor, bears the divine name, and is recognized as God, and therefore cannot be a created messenger. The same Word who would later take flesh was already drawing near to the faithful as Mediator, leading Israel in the wilderness, and receiving titles and works that belong to Yahweh alone. Calvin’s point is not to multiply gods, but to show that Israel’s God is the very God fully revealed in Christ, so that when the apostles confess Jesus as Lord, they are not offering a new deity, but naming the God who has been there all along.

    Readings: John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapter 13 (Sections 10–13)

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    12 分
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