It’s apparently the John Calvin of an austere theology, sometimes with an admirably broad scope—divine sovereignty, creation-fall-redemption—and sometimes with a much smaller but still important focus ...

In this way, Calvin helped sanctify a doctrine of liberty that democratic reformers–from John Locke to James Madison–would put to good use.

For Calvin, however, the doctrine of predestination was not an a priori metaphysical axiom from which everything else was derived. Rather, it had a Christological focus (with Christ as the mirror ...

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 ...

Here Calvin’s argument, as always, is well buttressed with Scripture. The implications of this doctrine for today are as vital as they are relevant.

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 Dayton, Tenn. John Calvin (Middle French: Jean ...

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 ...

Move to Calvin's theological ideas and you encounter even more controversy. Many have become exercised, in this anniversary year, by Calvin's "big idea". What was that? It depends who you ask, but ...

John Calvin habitually paints the motives and acts of Catholics in the most unfavorable light.

Despite deep divisions over the man and his doctrines, the Christian heirs of the Protestant Reformation have always considered John Calvin a key figure among their founding fathers. But for ...