John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian religion: a biography

Introduction: Remembering a man and his book

A book emerges

1559: the year of the book

The inheritors

Enlightenment ambivalence

Fashioning a reformer

America's Calvins

"A very Calvinist professor" and his Dutch friends

Titans: Barth and Brunner

Prophet of modernity: prince of tyrants

Oppression and liberation: South Africa

Change and dissent: China

Contemporary voices

Appendix 1: Burning a man and his books: Michael Servetus and John Calvin

Appendix 2: Calvin's editions of Institutes of the Christian religion.