Institutes of the Christian Religion
The first English translation of the 1541 French edition of Calvin's Institutes, a classic text of pastoral theology. One of the founding documents of the modern French language.
Resources by or about Elsie Anne McKee
Elsie Anne McKee. Archibald Alexander Professor Emerita of Reformation Studies and the History of Worship at Princeton Theological Seminary. Specialist in Calvin's ecclesiology, the diaconate, and Reformed worship.
Resources
Calvin’s Preaching: An Introduction to His Sermons
McKee surveys the renewed twentieth-century attention to Calvin's sermons, including the manuscript volumes discarded as old paper in 1806, and introduces the unique character of Calvin's preaching alongside his Institutes and commentaries.
Calvin’s Understanding of the Elder
Elsie Anne McKee traces the New Testament texts Calvin cites in the Institutes to establish the office of elder, showing how his exegesis of passages such as I Corinthians 12:28, Romans 12:8, and 1 Timothy 5:17 shaped a coherent biblical account of church order and discipline.
Calvin’s 1536 Institutes
McKee reflects on the 1536 first edition of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion at its 450th anniversary, drawing together familiar and less-familiar features to recover the book's identity as the church's book of doctrine and piety.