Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode I have a special guest with me. I have Dr. Burke Parsons. Dr Parsons, welcome to five minutes in church history.

Thank you, Steve. I'm so glad to have you here. Dr Parsons is a busy man. He

co-pastors St Andrews Chapel. He is the editor of Table Talk magazine.

Recently he was made a teaching fellow at Ligonier Ministries, but I'm here to talk to him about this new

book that he did in conjunction with Dr. Aaron Denlinger. Dr. Denlinger is a fine

reformation scholar and quite a scholar of Latin and the two of you teamed up to give us this book and we were

joking about it but it has a quite literal title. It is by Calvin and it is called a little book on the Christian life.

Tell us about this book.

Well, thanks, Steve.

And you're right.

Aaron and I teamed up several years ago to work on this.

It had been a project I wanted to work on for many years.

After first reading the institutes, of course,

and then reading Van Andal's edition from Baker

of the Golden booklet of the true Christian life, realized that this was a classic and a book that I wanted every Christian to read.

And so for years, knowing some Latin myself and knowing Calvin well, but

needing really a good Latin scholar to help me give a new translation, a new edition of this booklet.

As Dr. Den Lenger and of course we spent a good couple of years working on this in my study

on Monday afternoons, hour and a half, two hours since at at a time working very slowly, very carefully on this

addition and hopefully it's a helpful, hopeful work for people.

So that's a great experience to be diving that deeply into Calvin over that length of time.

What we really have here is a classic within a classic.

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