Divinity compromised A study of divine accommodation in the thought of john calvin /

• Main Author: Balserak, Jon (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Religion.; Religious Studies.; Religious Studies, general.

This book is the first monograph devoted to the theme of divine accommodation in the writings of John Calvin to appear in any language. The work offers careful analysis of the topic along several different lines: it analyzes the character of Calvin’s thinking on accommodation. It gives an account of...

Table of Contents:

• Divine accommodation in the tradition and calvin
• Human captus
• God's accommodating responses to human captus
• God's reasons for accommodating—images of god in calvin's handling of accommodation
• Accommodation and calvin'ng on the power of god
• The volatility of accommodation
• Concluding reflections.