• An edition of the Latin works of Calvin is available under the title Calvini Opera quce supersunt omnia, 5 vols. (Brunswick, 1864-1867).
• Commentarii in libros NT are edited by Tholuck (Halle, 1833-38, 7 vols.); one of the Comm. in Psalmos (1836, 2 vols.), and of the Institutiones Religionis Christiance was also edited by Tholuck (Halle, 1834, 1835, 2 vols.); one of the Comm. in lib. Geneseos (1838) by Hengstenberg.

Secondary Literature

• Evans, Gillian R. The Language and Logic of the Bible: The Road to the Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
• Millet, Olivier. Calvin et la dynamic de la parole. Geneva: Editions Slatkine, 1992.
• Muller, Richard A. and John Thompson, “The Significance of Precritical Exegesis,” In Biblical Interpretation in the Era of the Reformation. Ed. Richard A. Muller, John Thompson. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1996, 335-42.
• Parker, T. H. L. Calvin’s New Testament Commentaries. London: SCM, 1971.
• Torannce, Thomas F. The Hermeneutics of John Calvin. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1988.
• Zachman, Randall C. “ ‘Do you understand what you are reading?’ Calvin’s guidance for the reading of Scripture,” Scottish Journal of Theology 59/1 (2001) 1-20.
• Zachman, Randall C. “Gathering meaning from the context: Calvin’s exegetical method,” Journal of Religion 82 (2002).

• Born July 10, 1509, at Noyon in northern France.
• 1518, Calvin's mother died, and John was taken into very powerful d’Hangest household
• 521, sent to Paris for school at Colleges de la Marche and Montaigu.
• 1526, abruptly sent by his father to study law at Orleans; became friends with Protestant Reformers, Pierre Robert and Melchior Wolmar.
• 1529, followed Wolmar to Bourges law school, possibly already converted to Reform.
• 1531, Calvin's father died in disgrace in Noyon over missing funds; John received law degree
• 1532: Calvin's first published work is a commentary on Seneca, De Clementia.
• 1533, while in Paris he helped Nicolas Cop draft a speech sympathetic to Reform, became a fugitive. Even acquaintance Marguerite, the king’s sister, could not protect him.
• 1534, fled France.
• 1535, settled in Basel and wrote theological masterpiece Institutio Christianae religionis (Institutes of the Christian Religion) which he revised and expanded for a lifetime.
• 1536, settled in Geneva (a city-state then but later part of Switzerland), where he and William Farel became civic powers as well as church powers until vanquished by rivals.
• 1538, helped Martin Bucer in Strasbourg.
• 1939, completed the 2nd edition of Institutes, and commentary on Romans
• 1540, married widow, Idelette de Bure
• 1540-51, completed commentaries on all the epistles
• 1541, wooed back to Geneva where he was more powerful than before—this time without Farel.
• 1542, Calvin’s only son James died.
• 1549, Idelette died. John remained in Geneva writing copiously and preaching—often in stormy civic battles
• 1553-57, wrote commentaries on the gospels
• May 27, 1564, died; by his request he was buried in an unmarked grave.