In this exploration of John Calvin's political thought, Roland Boer treats Calvin as a biblical scholar and political philosopher, showing us elusive aspects of Calvin's "Institutes." Boer investigates Calvin's careful thinking in the "Institutes" as well as in his biblical commentaries, pursuing Calvin's understanding of political freedom.

Boer also explores Calvin's views on grace with the eye of a careful interpreter, and suggests what we might find in Calvin's political thought if we took the Bible, grace, and freedom as seriously as Calvin did.