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John Calvin (1509-1564) entered college in Paris at the age of 14 and began a course of studies in the Classics, then in Law. But by 1533, Calvin tells us: "God compelled me by a sudden conversion". Finding within a year or so that many were coming to him to be taught Reformation doctrine, the "timid, soft and pusillanimous" (his own words!) Calvin went to Basel to seek refuge and quiet. But many were suffering cruelly in France for their new-found Reformation faith. Calvin felt he should write to the French king to vindicate the sufferers by giving the king a summary of the true Christian religion.
In 1536, the first edition of his Institutes of the Christian Religion appeared - a volume of six chapters, 520 pages. Edition after edition followed, each larger than the former, till the work finally reached 80 chapters and half-a-million words! What he began as an evangelistic tract, ended as a manual of profound theology; this is a very abridged version of his content, mostly focused on his key points, for a young theological reader to whet an appetite for the full volume one day.
