Knowing God and Ourselves: Reading Calvin's Institutes Devotionally

Too often as Christians we think it’s more important to know God than it is to know ourselves, but Calvin rightly shows that there is equal balance in the importance of knowing God and how that affects knowledge of ourselves, and vice versa; the more we know ourselves, truly, the more we’re driven to know and love God. What he does is to take us through Calvin’s Institutes section by section just with a brief summary and devotional comment, then leading into prayer and response, and it just whets your appetite to get and get the uncut version, and read it more fully, so if you want a very useful way for getting somebody into the Institutes, than Calhoun’s book is one to get your hands on.’ — MARK JOHNSTON BOOK DESCRIPTION The goal of Knowing God and Ourselves is to help students, especially beginning students, of Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion to better understand what they are reading and to encourage them to persist in working through this important but challenging boo