Light for the City: Calvin’s Preaching, Source of Life and Liberty / The Pastor in Prayer

Light for the City: Calvin's Preaching, Source of Life and Liberty by Lester DeKoster. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2004. 139 pp. (paper). $20.00. [Reviewed by Prof. Barrett L. Gritters.] Calvin scholar Lester De Koster has produced a small work whose thesis, apparent in the title, comes out more clearly in his "Forewarning," as he puts it. First he lets Calvin speak: "It certainly is the part of the Christian man to ascend higher than merely to seek and secure the salvation of his own...