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 ...

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 ...

Remembered as “a model of goodness,” Calvin religion professor emeritus John Primus died on Nov. 5, 2018. He was 86. A 1954 Calvin graduate and a 1957 graduate of Calvin Theological Seminary, Primus ...

“On this day, with the setting sun, the brightest light in the world and he who had been the strength of the Church was taken back to heaven.” So wrote Theodore Beza of the passing of John Calvin four ...

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 ...

The desire to understand and explicate the theology of John Calvin once led to a focus on the doctrine of the sovereignty of God and its logical corollary, predestination. This older quest for a ...