Darkness After Lightning

Book 2/Chapter 2 A summary (section 17) 1. What is proper to our nature? 2. What must we avoid claiming as our own? Limits of understanding (section 18) 1. What are the 3 characteristics of spiritual insight? 2. What illustration does Calvin use to describe non-believers when they have a true insight concerning God? Spiritual …

All Truth is the Lord”s

Book 2/Chapter 2 Two kinds of understanding (section 13) 1. What are the two kinds of understanding according to Calvin? 2. What is included in the former? 3. The latter? Understanding arts and science (section 14) 1. What does virtually every human being possess? 2. What do we learn from imbeciles? 3. What is a …

The Phrase “Free Will” As Stumbling Block

Cooperation with grace (section 6) 1. What is necessary before men can do good works truly? 2. What ambiguity does Calvin object to in the teaching of Lombard? Absence of compulsion (section 7) 1. What does Calvin think about “contentions about words”? 2. So why then does he reject the words free will so strongly? …

Original Sin

Book 2/Chapter 1 Original Sin (section 5) 1. How does Calvin define the “death of Adam’s soul”? 2. How does Calvin define “original sin”? 3. What was Pelagius’ “profane fiction”? Is Original Sin Imitative? (section 6) 1. When are children defiled by original sin? 2. What is Adam’s position with regard to the human race? …