Childhood and youth -- Child of the church ; Arts student ; Training in philosophy -- Orléans and Bourges -- The study of civil law ; Friends and relatives ; Bourges and a new start ; The first book ; Fugitive from injustice -- Christianae religionis institutio -- Its character and purpose ; Law, faith, and prayer ; The sacraments ; Liberty -- Genevan trials -- An exile from home ; Sixteenth-century Geneva ; Church authority ; Organization in theory and practice -- The French minister in Strasbourg -- Matters domestic and pastoral ; The new Institutio ; The commentary on Romans ; Geneva changes its mind -- The Genevan Church settlement -- The Ordinances ; The church at worship ; Calvin the preacher -- Opposition to a godly society -- The opposition musters ; Calvin at home ; The Institutio again and New Testament commentaries ; The opposition grows ; The battle over discipline -- Defeat into security -- The trial and death of Servetus ; The fall of the Perrinists ; The university of Geneva ; Old Testament commentaries and the final Institutio -- Caring for the churches -- The one body ; Letters private and public ; Outside Geneva -- Christ is gain in dyinǵ.