As you all probably know, this year is John Calvin's 500th birthday. The day itself was back on 10 July. Christian Books Australia have a number of excellent books on Calvin . I personally recommend: The AGES Software Calvin Collection - incl. both English translations of Institutes, as well as sermons and a selection of tracts; Joel Beeke, The Quest for Full Assurance - examines how Calvin, the Puritans and Dutch Reformers understood assurance, and argues for basic continuity between them; David Hall, The Legacy of John Calvin - a simple overview of Calvin's influence over the last 500 years; Paul Helm, Calvin and the Calvinists - in response to R. T. Kendall's Calvin and English Calvinism , Helm argues that English Puritan theology is consistent with Calvin's, and does not have the negative pastoral impacts Kendall accuses English Puritanism of; Susan Schreiner, Theater of His Glory: Nature and the Natural Order in the Thought of John Calvin - looks at Calvin...