Great Books III Study Questions for Assignment 26

Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion Book Two, Chapters 1-6

STUDY QUESTIONS: Chap. 1.1-3 What is the right and wrong knowledge of self? Chap. 1.4 What was the root of the Fall? Why does Calvin say this? Chap. 1.5 What did the church fathers mean by the word "sin"? Chap. 1.5 What is the difference between transmission of sin by propagation and transmission by imitation? (see also 1.6) Chap. 1.8 What is Calvin's definition of "original sin"? What is the difference between this and "sins"? Chap. 1.9 What is Calvin's view of the extent of man's corruption? (In other words, what does "total depravity" really mean?) Chap 2.1-10 What is Calvin's position on the question of "free will"? (compare 2.8-9, and 3.5) Chap. 3.5 How is sin "of necessity" different from sin "from compulsion"? Chap. 4.3 In what two ways does God harden man's heart? Chap. 4.5 What is the relationship between Satan's activity for evil and God's sovereignty? Chap 4.8 What distinction does Calvin make in this section? Chap 5 What themes run through all of Calvin's refutations in this chapter? That is, what assumptions lie at the bottom of the objections he is answering, and what lie under his answers? Chap. 6.1 How is the discussion in this section similar to Athanasius in On the Incarnation? Chap 6.4 What qualification is needed for the saying that God is the object of faith? Why?

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