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Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

by John Calvin

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"Excellent! Book 1 holds up. Though translating “intellectus” as “understanding” makes for lack of understanding!" — Jul 05, 2025 06:55AM

Jan 04, 2017 04:53AM · see review

“So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.”
― Augustine of Hippo, The City of God: Books 1-10

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“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

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“The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

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“Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.”
― Carl Trueman

tags: bad-writing, heresy, theology

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