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John Calvin's "Institutes of the Christian Religion" was a blockbuster in Calvin’s day, but why, hundreds of years later, did it wind up playing a part in debates about apartheid in South Africa? How did the exact same book manage to help some people justify racial discrimination, but also help others powerfully oppose it?

Bruce Gordon answers that—and other questions—in this episode about his new biography of the "Institutes" from Princeton University Press's "Lives of Great Religious Books" series.

For more information, see bit.ly/mip49gordon.

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