What Pure Eyes Could See Calvin's Doctrine of Faith in Its Exegetical Context [Hardcover]

Barbara Pitkin traces the way in which Calvin's exegetical labors contributed to his understanding of faith. Through detailed analysis of Calvin's interpretation of selected biblical passages, this study shows how his views evolved. Pitkin describes the gradual development of the mature Calvin's view that faith exhibits a twofold character--saving faith and providential faith--that corresponds to the twofold aspect of its object--Christ as both the incarnate and eternal Son of God.

It does not make light reading, for its scholarship is wide-ranging, painstaking and detailed, but the journey is rewarding. It shows us things from the whole of the Calvin corpus which most of us are likely never to have the opportunity to explore in such detail for ourselves. --Bulletin of theInstitute for Reformed Theology

[Pitkin's] study is not only a study of historical theology but also contributes to the history of biblical exegesis. --Theology Digest

Barbara Pitkin has written a very important work, in which there are numerous insights founded upon consideration of primary sources, analysed within the developing structure of Calvin'sInstitutesover subsequent editions, and within his continuous output of biblical commentaries. --Theology