Law and liberty. Church and state. These are the things held in a constant balancing act in John Calvin’s Geneva, said John Witte, Jr. in his lecture that opened the 22nd -annual January Series this ...

(EDS: Use Religion page label My View mug of Rev. Jack Van Ens) Imagine the brilliance of a birthday cake lit with 500 candles to celebrate John Calvin’s birthday last month on July 10 (1509-2009). He ...

GENEVA -- John Calvin, the Great Reformer, used dictatorial means in making Geneva a "Protestant Rome," but he also planted the seeds of modern democracy. He enforced rigid morality and stressed the ...

Because the Papists persecute the truth, should we on that account refrain from repressing error? —John Calvin On the hill of Champel, just outside the city of Geneva, a man was made ready for burning ...

Why the 500-year-old Reformer retains an enthusiastic following today. Few figures in Christian history have been esteemed so highly or despised so meanly as the shy French lawyer born 500 years ago ...

The truth is that the Calvinistic doctrines upon which the faith of the Afrikaner is nourished contain within themselves—like all heresies and deviations from Catholic truth—exaggerations so ...

GENEVA — John Calvin, the Great Reformer, used dictatorial means in making Geneva a "Protestant Rome," but he also planted the seeds of modern democracy. He enforced rigid morality and stressed the ...

The Swiss city of Geneva has a long history of affording refuge to religious dissenters, most notably the 16th-century reformer John Calvin, but the strong Swiss franc currency has made it hard on his ...

Geneva last week was a blaze of flags; trumpets sounded in the sun-drenched parks, and fireworks sprayed the night sky. Many a tourist assumed that the celebrations had something to do with the Big ...

Calvin-o-mania is sweeping Switzerland this weekend as people mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of theologian John Calvin. Professor Karin Maag of Calvin College — where the birthday was ...