Pencil in need of sharpening

Peter Ham  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Mar 2011
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FAITH UNFEIGNED
By John Calvin
Translated by Robert White. Banner of Truth. 208 pages. £14.50
ISBN 978-1-84871-086-3

The book majors on four of Calvin’s sermons on ‘how to confess Christ and maintain the integrity of one’s faith in a hostile environment’, reworked by him for publication and now translated into modern English. Also included are a short exposition of Psalm 87, and three letters, the very lengthy last of these a reprint of an older translation (Beveridge, 1850s).

Two burning issues of Calvin’s day dominate: may true believers living in ‘Popish lands’ attend Catholic masses (with ‘fingers crossed behind their backs’, so to speak), and/or should they seek to relocate to a Protestant country? The dust jacket (rightly) states that the principles involved in these questions are still ‘contemporary’, with ‘pressure to conform to non- or sub-Christian religions and cultures’.

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