Cindy Marsch’s Reviews > Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life > Status Update

Years ago I basked in Calvin's elegant, uplifting language in a volume of *The Institutes* I'd picked up, and when I spied this on my home bookshelf, I added it to my bedtime reading stack. But I discovered just a collection of aphorisms, moralisms, suffocating legalism, Why? Someone has just gleaned the "maxims" out of Calvin, and that's a shame.