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?

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Chapter 15 - Bonus Coverage!

One more thing about how humans are constituted. Calvin claims at the end of the chapter that Adam was culpable for his decisions because he had been given a 'governing' will. This was part of his soul and would have told him the right thing to do. He didn't do the right thing. So, he was rightly judged.

Now, hang on. That sounds a lot like trichotimism, doesn't it? I thought humans only had two parts! Where did all this 'will' stuff come from?

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