Reformer’s 500th birthday draws out diverse cast of admirers. Known as a divisive theologian, John Calvin has become a unifying figure 500 years after his birth on July 10, 1509. Already several ...

English professor James Vanden Bosch donned the traditional black garb to play John Calvin on the reformer's 502nd birthday. Read his speech and a short Q&A about the responsibilities of playing John ...

Calvin professor of philosophy and Worship Institute research fellow James K.A. Smith has written a new book called Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition. At just 160 ...

I am responding to Book IV, 12:20 of early Protestant leader John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, where he makes a wholesale attack on the Catholic beliefs and practices of Lent. I ...

You may find members of Presbyterian and Reformed churches more theologically engaged than usual these days. This year marks the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth. I decided to observe the ...

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 ...

Today is John Calvin’s birthday—a time to celebrate and to reflect on him, his work, and his legacy, though surely not without pause. One of the founders, movers, and shakers of the Protestant ...

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 ...

CECIL ANDREWS (Writeback, April 5) claims that not all human beings are to be regarded as children of God. This falsehood is based on John Calvin's misinterpretation and misapplication of Scripture.

The two big obstacles to admiring Calvin are a chill authoritarianism and his repulsive doctrine of double predestination, says Christopher Howse. It is 500 years since the birth of John Calvin, that ...