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I recently finished reading straight through John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. I plan to write an essay on that experience in the near future. For now, one of the things that struck me was how Calvin worked with various theological and philosophical distinctions. I catalogued as many as I could discern and you can find them in this document. There are many of them! Many Calvin works with in a positive way, but there are also a few he rejects as “wily,” “loathsome,” or “worthless.” It’s said that distinguishing well is a hallmark of a good theologian — Calvin certainly ranks up there with the best.
Logical Investigations 