Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion (The Library of Christian Classics)

The theologian Paul Tillich declared that faith is “the state of being ultimately concerned.” He argued that because each person has something of ultimate concern that defines their life and identity, all people are religious—even the atheist. Every person has something in their life that functions as their god. For some, this god-function is occup

Thus Calvin emphasized that the sacraments “are not strictly the works of men but of God. In Baptism or the Lord’s Supper we do nothing; we simply come to God to receive His grace. Baptism, from our side, is a passive work. We bring nothing to it but faith, which has all things laid up in Christ.”