Section navigation

Calvin’s Sermons on Deuteronomy

Author
Category Announcements
Date March 2, 2015

John Calvin preached 200 sermons on Deuteronomy. They have been dropped down the memory hole. Calvinist seminary professors have never heard of them, let alone read them. Until today, they had an excuse. Not any longer.

In 1583, a translation of them appeared in English. This was ignored, then forgotten. Over four centuries later (1987), the Banner of Truth Trust reprinted this English edition, in facsimile copy. Today, a used copy sells for $100 or more.

In 2009, I donated money to American Vision to have a team of transcription specialists in India convert the photocopy text into digital text. It took them a year. Late last year, American Vision posted the digital text online. It put this into the public domain.

A dedicated woman voluntarily proofed the digital text, and then produced clean copy. A church in the Philippines is now posting her cleaned-up text. The public can now read these sermons, which have been ignored for 450 years.

I want people to know about these remarkable documents. Seminary professors at Calvinist seminaries would be wise to read them. They will have to revise their old lecture notes on what Calvin thought about the Mosaic law.

Read more here.

NOTE: the links to the sermons in the original article no longer work. To access these sermons, click here to download an eBook of the sermons, from Monergism.

Latest Articles

Finished!: A Message for Easter March 28, 2024

Think about someone being selected and sent to do an especially difficult job. Some major crisis has arisen, or some massive problem needs to be tackled, and it requires the knowledge, the experience, the skill-set, the leadership that they so remarkably possess. It was like that with Jesus. Entrusted to him by God the Father […]

Every Christian a Publisher! February 27, 2024

The following article appeared in Issue 291 of the Banner Magazine, dated December 1987. ‘The Lord gave the word; great was the company of those that published it’ (Psalm 68.11) THE NEED FOR TRUTH I would like to speak to you today about the importance of the use of liter­ature in the church, for evangelism, […]