Newly translated from its original 16th Century French, "A Light to My Path: An Exposition of the Ten Commandments" is a collection of twelve sermons that Reformer John Calvin preached on the Ten Commandments. Warm and earnest in tone, showing profound scholarship yet with an emphasis on practical application, Calvin’s sermons carry believers to the heart of the commands of God. His sermons unite a theological depth with a down-to-earth, easily-understandable style, offering the modern reader an easy and enjoyable access to the riches of Calvin’s theology and understanding of the Scriptures.
Preached in Geneva during the months of June and July of the year 1555, Calvin's sermons on the Decalogue form part of a larger expositional series that he undertook through the book of Deuteronomy. The sermons as a whole were afterward published in book form by Thomas Courteau under the title "Sermons de M. Jean Calvin sur le v. livre de Moyse nommé Deuteronome" (Geneva, 1567). "A Light to My Path" is sure to be an edifying, enlightening, and convicting read for both new believers and theologians alike.
John Calvin (1509 - 1584)
Was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530. After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France, Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where he published the first edition of his seminal work The Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536.Calvin's writing and preachings provided the seeds for the branch of theology that bears his name. The Reformed, Congregational, and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world.
John Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530. After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France, Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where in 1536 he published the first edition of his seminal work Institutes of the Christian Religion.
Calvin's writing and preaching provided the seeds for the branch of theology that bears his name. The Presbyterian and other Reformed churches, which look to Calvin as a chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world. Calvin's thought exerted considerable influence over major religious figures and entire religious movements, such as Puritanism, and some have argued that his ideas have contributed to the rise of capitalism, individualism, and representative democracy in the West.
Founder of Calvinism. John Calvin, a French scholar who became a leading preacher and dominant force in the Reformation of the 16th Century, studied at the University of Paris and at the University of Orleans. He became dissatisfied with the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and allied himself with the cause of the Protestant Reformation in 1532.
When the king of France decided to settle the religious question in his country in favor of the Catholics, Calvin fled to Geneva, Switzerland, where his writings and lectures made Geneva the Rome of Protestantism. His institutes of the Christian religion became the basis for the Presbyterian way of thought and church life. Calvinism is the main doctrine of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches.
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