Calvin for the Third Millennium

✍ Scribed by Hans Mol

• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This work is a series of sermons produced by Emeritus Professor Hans Mol, and based on Biblical texts, the Commentaries of John Calvin on these texts, and on Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. Mol is Australia’s pre-eminent scholar in the sociology of religion, particularly in Australia. His 1971 volume, Religion in Australia, was the first attempt at statistical analysis of religion in Australia, which was also internationally significant. Parallel to Mol’s interest in the sociology of religion has been his interest in Calvin. Indeed the theological basis of his life has been as a Calvinist. Here in this volume he brings both of these interests together. His sermons, preached over the years in Canberra, seek to apply the teachings of Calvin to a world-view in which the scientific study of religion, and indeed the wider study of sociology, are of central significance. In these sermons, he succeeds considerably in this. The volume is a substantial contribution to scholarship, in that the combination of these two factors has only rarely been attempted. Thus, the volume has originality and will have enduring value. It is especially appropriate that it should be published at this time, in preparation for the 500th Anniversary of Calvin's birth (1509–2009).

✦ Table of Contents

Calvin for the third millennium......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 7
PERFECTION and RESURRECTION......Page 9
TRINITY and TRUTH......Page 13
ETERNITY: FACT or FICTION?......Page 19
DREAMS......Page 25
A HOLY STRUGGLE for POWER......Page 31
AUTHORITY from within or AUTHORITY from without......Page 39
GOD and CAESAR......Page 47
COVENANT and FAITH......Page 55
The CLOAK of INTEGRITY......Page 63
SCATTERED like a CROWD of FRIGHTENED SHEEP......Page 69
RESTORING the BALANCE......Page 75
CALVIN’S DOGS......Page 79
PAWNS, PUPPETS and PIETY......Page 85
GROWING in WISDOM......Page 91
RESTORED SOULS......Page 97
CORRUPTING POWER......Page 103
MISPLACED MILITANCY......Page 111
GRATITUDE from a FOREIGNER......Page 119
PEACE and POWER......Page 127
ABUSE of RELIGION......Page 135
MARTYRDOM and SELF-DENIAL......Page 141
The GRACE of GOD......Page 149
ORDER and DISORDER......Page 157
WORK......Page 165
The VIRGIN BIRTH......Page 173
THE LAMB OF GOD and THE TREE OF LIFE......Page 181
THE BEGINNING and THE END......Page 189
JESUS: REFUGEE or KING?......Page 197
ROOTS and ROOTLESSNESS......Page 203
FREEDOM from OPPRESSION......Page 209
PREDESTINATION or ELECTION?......Page 213
BEING CHRIST’S LETTER......Page 219
JESUS in the WILDERNESS......Page 225
IMPRISONED, YET FREE......Page 231
SACRIFICING LIFE......Page 237
SEPARATE, YET TOGETHER or the TRAGEDY and TRIUMPH of DIVERSITY......Page 243
THE SIMPLICITY of FAITH......Page 251
AUTHORITY and MINISTRY......Page 257
The HARMONY of FAITH......Page 263
HEAVEN, the HABITATION of ORDER......Page 269
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 275
OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR......Page 277
POSTSCRIPT......Page 279