In my two minutes with you this morning, I’d like to make a suggestion about the John Calvin you seem to honor here in West Michigan. It’s apparently the John Calvin of an austere theology, sometimes ...

John Calvin strides through the Western imagination as a figure of certainty – willing to abandon the church of his youth, burn a heretic, and proclaim double predestination that consigned millions to ...

Today marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, the French theologian who helped carry the Protestant Reformation into the heart of Europe and shatter the spiritual hegemony of the ...

John Calvin became not only the greatest theological genius of the Reformation, ... Calvin's theology was meant for trekkers, not for settlers, as historian Heiko Oberman put it.

This point in Calvin’s theology has been well stressed by Dr. Wilhelm Niesel (The Theology of Calvin, pp. 229 f). Calvin saw all things under Christ for the well-being of the Church.

The 16th century Protestant Reformer John Calvin is perhaps best known as the godfather of Reformed churches, including Presbyterianism. But it's young American evangelicals who are now picking up ...

In fact, he claimed only to be Augustinian in theology. Someone has calculated that Calvin's major work, The Institutes of the Christian Religion , contains more than 1500 references to Augustine ...

John Calvin News from United Press International. On July 10, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, in which John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in school, a violation of state law, began in ...

John Calvin’s “Institutes of the Christian Religion” is considered a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology. First published in Latin in 1536 and in Calvin’s native ...