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Zusatztext An immensely helpful book ... Helm's book is unique. As far as I know there is nothing like it. For that reason alone, anyone interested in the thought of John Calvin must include it in his library ... No one who reads it will have read anything quite like it before. Informationen zum Autor Paul Helm is J. I. Packer Professor of Philosophical Theology, Regent College, Vancouver. Klappentext This is a major study of the theological thought of John Calvin! which examines his central theological ideas through a philosophical lens! looking at issues in Metaphysics! Epistemology! and Ethics. The study! the first of its kind! is concerned with how Calvin actually uses philosophical ideas in his work as a theologian and biblical commentator. The book also includes a careful examination of those ideas of Calvin to which the Reformed Epistemologists appeal! to find grounds and precedent for their development of Reformed Epistemology'! notably the sensus divinitatis and the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit. Zusammenfassung Paul Helm looks at how Calvin worked at the interface of theology and philosophy and in particular how he employed medieval ideas to do so. Connections are made between his ideas and contemporary philosophical theology, and there is a careful examination of the appeal that current `Reformed' epistemologists make to Calvin. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: God `in Se' and `quoad nos' 2: The Trinity 3: The Extra 4: Providence and Evil 5: The Soul 6: Free Will 7: Divine Accommodation 8: Natural Theology and the Sensus Divinitatis 9: Revelation 10: The Angels 11: The Power Dialectic 12: Equity, Natural Law, and Common Grace 13: Faith, Atonement, and Time
