Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion

After recording a course on the subject for Reformed Academy, Dr. Carlton Wynne comes to the podcast studio to discuss John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. Topics covered include Calvin’s theology, the right ordering of knowledge, general and special revelation, the effects of the fall on human reasoning, natural theology, and comparisons to the thought of Thomas Aquinas and Cornelius Van Til. Carlton also shares about his experience as a pastor-theologian and his talk on maintaining true religion in a modernist world at the recent Reformation Worship Conference. The conversation touches on the legacy of J. Gresham Machen and the need for the church to guard the good deposit of faith. Chapters 00:00:07 Introduction 00:05:41 Introduction to Carlton’s Course on Calvin’s Institutes 00:13:56 The Church and the Academy 00:20:58 Approaching a Course on the Institutes 00:30:30 The Natural Knowledge of God 00:37:52 Natural Theology, Ethics, and “Formal” Truth 00:49:48 The Reformation Worship Conference 00:57:28 Machen 2.0 01:10:39 Calvin and the Threefold Office of Mediator 01:12:52 Conclusion Participants: Camden Bucey, Carlton Wynne