Battles Edition of Calvin's Institutes

Does anyone know when the Battles Edition of Calvin's Institutes will be available for download? I am asking because I am taking a class in which I am supposed to read this book and this is the preferred edition and would like to have the Logos edition without having to also buy the hardback edition.

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JT (alabama24)

Does anyone know when the Battles Edition of Calvin's Institutes will be available for download?

Normally Logos gives at least several weeks notice… Since there isn't any ship date, I would not count on it anytime real soon. Sorry. [:S]

Randy Marsh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/457403#Comment_457403

Thanks, I was thinking the same thing, but I am hoping because I have until the end of April to have it read.

Rich DeRuiter

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/457406#Comment_457406

Thanks, I was thinking the same thing, but I am hoping because I have until the end of April to have it read.

Library? Interlibrary loan?

Mike Tourangeau

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/457411#Comment_457411

I am half way through Calvin's institutes right now (Beveridge) Is there a benefit in reading it from Battles? Would it be worth 50.00?

I am enjoying it to say the least....

Sacrifice

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/457462#Comment_457462

There are different translations:

Thomas Norton (1561)

John Allen (1813)

Henry Beveridge (1845)

Ford Lewis Battles (1960)

JI Packer states,

No English translation fully matches Calvin's Latin; that of the Elizabethan, Thomas Norton, perhaps gets closest; Beveridge gives us Calvin's feistiness but not always his precision; Battles gives us the precision but not always the punchiness, and fleetness of foot; Allen is smooth and clear, but low-key.

Some would disagree and say that Beveridge is more accurate than Battles.... Battles has notes and you can see what was added in which edition thru the lettering system he introduced. It is the one normally quoted by scholars.

You may desire to get Tony Lane’s reader’s guide to the Institutes and if doing a group study then you may desire to consider Douglas Wilson’s Study Guide for Calvin’s Institutes. If you desire to explore certain sections of the Institutes in greater depth, a collection of essays can be found in A Theological Guide to Calvin’s Institutes: Essays and Analysis , edited by David Hall and Peter Lillaback.

http://www.wtsbooks.com/pdf_files/9781596380912.pdf

Read Institutes in a year

http://www.chapellibrary.org/files/archive/pdf-english/rcii.pdf

Randy Marsh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/457487#Comment_457487

Thank you everyone for all of the input. Thank you 5 Solas for the critiques of the various translations, and thank you Richard for the idea of using the library. I have had Logos for so long now that I just have not used a library in years (kind of funny in a way).