Q: Do you take milk in your coffee, sir?
A: Oh, dear God, no, I dare not mix darkness with light
Clever indeed, who cares for a wee bit of light in a mug full of darkness?
Calvin’s austerity? 9 martie, 2009
Wrapping up my essay on Calvin’s doctrine of Scripture I ran across a copiously amusing passage in the Institutes. Speaking about proper theology as being done within the limits of revelation, namely Scripture, Calvin makes a swift and brutally funny comment on what God was doing before he created the world. Did he struggle with cosmic boredom? Noooo…. , answers Calvin with a twinkle in his eye, he was busy creating hell for those theologians with overly-curious minds toying with “idle speculations” (Inst. 1.14.1). Hmm… sometimes you wonder: has he made hell big enough? 
