Book Review Article: Come Out From Among Them
This book review examines John Calvin's anti-Nicodemite treatises, which address the problem of Protestant believers who dissembled by attending Roman Catholic worship to avoid persecution. McGeown analyzes Calvin's arguments against the false dichotomy of external conformity with inward spiritual rejection, drawing parallels to modern Reformed church practice and the necessity of faithful public witness.
Martyn McGeown (First published in the British Reformed Journal, Issue 43, Summer 2005) Come Out From Among Them: Anti-Nicodemite Writings of John Calvin Protestant Heritage Press, 2001, hardback, 317pp. (Available from the CPRC Bookstore) Introduction At the time of the Reformation, there were certain would-be Protestants who wilfully dissembled by attending Roman Catholic worship to avoid persecution. History has come to call these people Nicodemites1, because they sought to justify...