Volume 22, Issue 3, October 2009

Professor McKee has placed us greatly in her debt with the production of this lively translation, preceded by an introduction. It helps us to see how a remarkable mind wrestled with the great issues of faith and context, never hesitating to denounce what he saw as error, as part of his clarification of what was God’s revealed truth to sinful humanity. Those who are heirs of the Reformed heritage would particularly benefit from reading and pondering this book’s message, but he belongs to the whole Church, as many contemporary Roman Catholic Calvin scholars have reminded us. Members of all Christian traditions could benefit from studying this translation of the early Calvin, by asking how it can speak to our generation, by challenging us all to reflect biblically and critically on our methods for commending the Catholic Christian faith today.