One of the most long-published Christian books is an extraction from John Calvin’s large systematic theology: Institutes of the Christian Religion.
Early in the publication history of the Institutes, a five chapter segment was recognized as being particularly insightful on practical aspects of a mature Christian’s walk. Beginning in about 1540, those five chapters have been continually published in many languages under many different titles as they were never separately titled by Calvin except as individual chapters. The five chapter “little book” has had various names such as “The Golden Book” or “The Little Book” with appended phrases such as “of the Life of the Christian Man.”
I have been convening a small group weekly Zoom Conference using Calvin’s Little Book. As part of our conferences, I have published weekly web pages on resources that can foster a deeper study into Calvin’s exposition of Scripture and stimulate discussion amongst fellow ‘zoomers.’
Such web pages are all openly published on this website. The ‘master’ webpage is here: From there one can scroll down and see the links to each week’s respective content. Alternatively, one can use the menu bar for this website, look for “Great Books” and then “Calvin’s Little Book.”
You are welcome to follow along.