In a footnote to Book 2, chapter 6, Battles argues the phrase "gospel and law" should be attached to Calvin as "this radical in Christo passage" requires us to confess that all true knowledge of God comes only through Christ. In particular, I find section 1 of this chapter an astonishingly clear and powerful articulation of the centrality of union with Christ for all knowledge and piety. Calvin's deep appropriation of Biblical paradigms (particularly from 1 Corinthians 1) here only makes me wonder all the more at the need some have felt in the recent Federal Vision controversies to distance themselves from Calvin's doctrine of union with Christ.
In the liner notes to Bitches Brew, Ralph J. Gleason wrote
What is so incredible about what Miles does is whoever comes after him, whenever, wherever, they have to take him into consideration. They have to pass him to get in front. He laid it out there and you can't avoid it.Too many, of whatever theological tradition, try to avoid John Calvin. Avoid Miles Davis, and you avoid jazz. Avoid John Calvin, and you avoid any kind of serious reflection on the Bible and Christ.
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