Want to Read Calvin's Institutes in 2015?

I have started a Faithlife group to contain the custom reading plans for Calvin's Institutes (Battles translation) for 2015. The group is here, and is open-

https://faithlife.com/read-calvins-institutes-in-2015/activity

This was based originally on this thread-

https://community.logos.com/forums/t/98587.aspx?PageIndex=1

Because of the cumbersome nature of Logos' custom reading plan creation, it is slow; as such, I'm creating four reading plans, one for each Book of the Institutes, rather than one giant reading plan. I've finished Book 1 and Book 2. That gets us through the first week of May. I'll get the others done ASAP.

Hope this benefits some.

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MJ. Smith

Please keep Faithlife informed of the difficulties in creating the reading plan. I have reasons for wanting it working well.

Simon’s Brother

Thanks Doc B.

Yasmin Stephen

I have started a Faithlife group to contain the custom reading plans for Calvin's Institutes (Battles translation) for 2015. The group is here, an is open-

https://faithlife.com/read-calvins-institutes-in-2015/activity

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Hope this benefits some.

Thanks very much! I tried creating one - my first attempt at a custom plan - and I burned out very early in the process. This is much appreciated [:)]

Rosie Perera

I've joined the group, as have several others who haven't yet posted in this thread. Should be an interesting time. There's also a Facebook group dedicated to this which some of us are on as well as a bunch of other non-Logos-users: https://www.facebook.com/groups/472266442907164/

Doc B

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/681224#Comment_681224

Please keep Faithlife informed of the difficulties in creating the reading plan. I have reasons for wanting it working well.

MJ, if there is (are) way(s) other than posting here in the forums, let me know. Otherwise, I don't know what they are, other than calling, and I have an aversion to phones.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/681312#Comment_681312

support@logos.com works when you don't want to use the forums. I use it primarily when I need to collect evidence over time or from a variety of sources.

Doc B

OK, it is 9PM local time and all four reading plans are up and running in the group. Good luck with it!

Everett Headley

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/681323#Comment_681323

Fwiw, I joined up on fb too.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/681323#Comment_681323

OK, it is 9PM local time and all four reading plans are up and running in the group. Good luck with it!

Thank you, Doc! Working great. Now I guess I'll have to wait until Monday to start reading because there's no way for me to edit the start date. [:S]

Rev. Wayne Paul Barrett

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/681357#Comment_681357

I just finished reading through The Institutes on Dec. 31st on a 1-year reading plan. Blessings as you read through them in 2015.

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/681502#Comment_681502

I just finished reading through The Institutes on Dec. 31st on a 1-year reading plan.

What plan did you use?

Doc B

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/681357#Comment_681357

OK, it is 9PM local time and all four reading plans are up and running in the group. Good luck with it!

Thank you, Doc! Working great. Now I guess I'll have to wait until Monday to start reading because there's no way for me to edit the start date.

Rosie, I promise not to file any complaints if you start a couple days early!

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/682212#Comment_682212

OK, it is 9PM local time and all four reading plans are up and running in the group. Good luck with it!

Thank you, Doc! Working great. Now I guess I'll have to wait until Monday to start reading because there's no way for me to edit the start date.

Rosie, I promise not to file any complaints if you start a couple days early!

Ha ha! I have started already though I'm going very slowly because I keep getting distracted looking things up. I'm reading Battles' Introduction, and in the first section of it, paragraph 5, he mentions Calvin's Preface to his Commentary on the Psalms, so of course I wanted to go look that up and read it. But I hadn't gotten three sentences into it before I encountered Calvin's mention of Martin Bucer, implying that he also had written a commentary on the Psalms. So I wanted to go dig that up and ended up discovering that pretty much none of Martin Bucer's writings have made it into Logos and not much of his work has even been translated into English. So I made a post about that on the Reformed Products suggestions forum, which required a lot of research.

Then I returned to finishing the Preface to Calvin's Commentary on the Psalms, but encountered something else I wanted to look up: in the seventh paragraph he mentions the "wicked libertines" who ended up being put to death under his leadership/approval. I had to go find out some more about this, as I'd forgotten all about Calvin's belief in the death penalty for adultery and even for rebellious children, as in Old Testament times! Eyes sure opened! Wow, I'm going to go into my rereading of the Institutes with a different set of assumptions now.

So now, finally, back to finishing the Preface to the Commentary on the Psalms and then I'll finally be able to go back to the Introduction to the Institutes. Hoping to finish that by the end of today so that I can launch in with John Calvin to the Reader tomorrow and be on schedule with y'all. But I've still got about another 40 pages of the Intro to read, and who knows how many times I'll be sidetracked as I go.

Rosie Perera

Hey all you Calvin readers, The Sermons and Lectures of John Calvin in English (29 vols.) in pre-pub needs some attention. This is a very exciting project. For the first time ever, all of Calvin's sermons will be collected in one place, and ones that have never been translated from the French or Latin will be translated. The field of Calvin sermon publication is a mess right now. They are all in the public domain so there's a few here and a few there in little volumes from a whole bunch of random little obscure publishers or digital self-printing places. Banner of Truth has done a lot of them. But there's no way to get a good edition of all his sermons. Now there will be, finally. So let's help move this bar over a bit.

Mark Barnes

Thanks for putting this together. I've been meaning to read through the Institutes properly for years. Your hard work was the motivation I needed to get started!

HJ. van der Wal

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/682287#Comment_682287

Hey all you Calvin readers, The Sermons and Lectures of John Calvin in English (29 vols.) in pre-pub needs some attention.

And if you have any money left, don't forget the Eerdmans Reformed Thought and History Collection (23 vols.) which includes Battles' translation of the 1536 Institutes.

Fred Greco

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/682437#Comment_682437

Is there a way to get a copy of the plan? I'd like to import it into my Logos, but I'd rather not join a FB group.

Simon’s Brother

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/682499#Comment_682499

Fred you can join the FaithLife group to import the plan into Logos. No need to join a Facebook group.

https://faithlife.com/read-calvins-institutes-in-2015/activity

Is there a way to get a copy of the plan? I'd like to import it into my Logos, but I'd rather not join a FB group.

Fred Greco

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/682504#Comment_682504

Thanks!

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/682499#Comment_682499

You can also download a PDF of the reading plan from here if you just want to follow it along the old-fashioned way and not use it as a Logos Reading Plan: http://www.chapellibrary.org/files/8213/7643/3335/rcii.pdf