Calvin uses some words from Aristotle to draw out the idea
that human beings often confuse the created order with the Creator, who, of
course is God himself. Aristotle said
that “the soul is inseparable from the body.
Calvin recognises that the soul operates far outside the functions which
serve the body. “Of what concern is it
to the body that you measure the heavens?” he says. Calvin considers certain characteristics of
humans that are “signs of divinity in man”.
These include things held in the memory or the skill to devise
incredible things and “marvellous devices”.
He criticises Vergil for suggesting that the universe was its own
Creator rather than a “spectacle of God’s glory”.
How do you understand nature/ where do you see God at work?
Or do you regard him as uninvolved in nature? Would you agree with Calvin that
nature is the “order prescribed by God”?
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