Calvin’s View of Creation: Spectacle of God’s Glory

"For our salvation was a matter of concern to God in such a way that, not forgetful of himself, he kept his glory primarily in view, and therefore created the whole world for this end, that it may be a theater of his glory" -- Consensus Genevensis, as quoted in The Theater of His Glory: Nature and Natural Order in the Thought of John Calvin, Susan E. Schreiner, Labyrinth Press, 1991 (cf. Institutes of the Christian Religion, J.T. McNeill, Ed.; F.L. Battles, Transl., Westminster, 1960, 2 vols.,...