Through the Church Fathers: April 1

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year · Apr 1, 2026 · 16m

Calvin draws a careful line between confusion and division, showing that Christ is one person with two distinct natures—fully God and fully man—so that the language of Scripture only makes sense when read through this lens of unity without mixture (John 1:14; Colossians 1:15–17); some passages clearly display his divinity, others his humanity, and others speak in a way that joins both together through what the church has called the communication of properties, where what belongs to one nature can be spoken of the person as a whole (Acts 20:28; 1 Corinthians 2:8); and this is not merely…