{"product_id":"calvin-jean-3","title":"CALVIN, Jean.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.Handsomely bound in contemporary Swiss polished calf, with cornerpieces much resembling in shape, size and style those in the Swiss BL, Davis592. It bears a gilt centrepiece with the arms of Geneva and a motto which can be translated  Not a day without a line . This was first hinted at by Pliny to describe the Greek painter Apelles s work; it was formulated as  Nulla die sine linea  in the medieval period, and, as here, by the Neo-Latin poet Fausto Andrelini in 1509, with the broader meaning  No day goes by without writing a line  or simply  without doing some work  (Nikitinski, p.430). The motto was especially popular among C16 and C17 lawyers, as far as north as the Inns of Court, and appears in  emblemata iuris , i.e., symbolic representations appropriated to represent the law (e.g., in Rollenhagen s  Emblematum ) (Goodrich, p.254). The early owner, unidentified, may have thus been a Genevan lawyer.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .Very good, handsomely bound copy of this immensely influential work by Jean Calvin (1509-1564), .a French theologian who contributed to the introduction of the Reformation to France and Switzerland. First published in Latin in 1536, the  Institutio  presented a systematic analysis of Protestant doctrines with the purpose of dissociating the new religious ideas from attacks against established political authority launched by the Anabaptists and condemned by Francis I, to whom the work is dedicated. The 4 parts discuss fundamental theological questions like the knowledge and understanding of God s divine nature, the doctrines of justification by faith alone and of predestination which differentiated Calvin s thought from Luther s. His influential theories inspired, among others, the religious and political ideas of the French Huguenots and the Scottish, English, and Irish Presbyterians. This edition has two remarkably detailed subject indexes, one by  loca , the other by specific keywords.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CALVIN, Jean.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57859659039055,"sku":"L3575a","price":4850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L3575a-3.jpg?v=1781793703","url":"https:\/\/www.sokol.co.uk\/products\/calvin-jean-3","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}