Misery Loves Calvin

Lent is all about being miserable. What better way to celebrate misery than to read John Calvin's infamous work, Institutes of the Christian Religion?

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Book II Chapter 8

Ugh. I had to read this crap. That was enough. No way I am going to write about it.

The Ten Commandments were basically the subject. I assume that you have heard of them. More broadly put, Calvin is explaining how the Moral law works (see ch. 7) in detail.

He splits the Decalogue into two sections. The first four commandments pertain to how we approach God. The next six deal with human interactions. You may not have known this before, but you are about to learn it now. Most of the Commandments were written by God to show just how Catholics and Anabaptists are doing it wrong.

So, there you go.

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