This article provides an overview and critique of John Calvin’s understanding of non-Christian philosophy and religions. I suggest Calvin’s thinking differed in three significant ways from early and medieval church belief. First, he gave a far less prominent place to the role of the demonic in religions. Second, Calvin rejected both traditional and Renaissance versions of the prisca theologia. Finally, it is noted that he explained glimmers of truth in non-Christian religion and philosophy by developing a rather unique understanding of human enlightenment as gifting from a specific role of the Logos rather than as enlightenment by the Logos per se.

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约翰·加尔文

本文对约翰·加尔文对非基督教哲学和宗教的理解进行了概述和批评。我认为加尔文的思想在三个重要方面与早期和中世纪的教会信仰不同。首先，他对恶魔在宗教中的作用的重视程度要低得多。其次，加尔文拒绝了传统的和文艺复兴时期的版本普里斯卡神学。最后，值得注意的是，他通过发展一种相当独特的理解来解释非基督教宗教和哲学中的真理之光，即人类启蒙是来自理则的特定角色的礼物，而不是理则本身的启蒙。