Just say the word - Calvinism - and you will draw frowns. When John L. Thompson's daughter brought home her civics textbook a few years ago, he noticed there was a short section on John Calvin, 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 ...

On Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 4 p.m., Dr. Jon Balserak of the University of Illinois Chicago gave a lecture titled “Calvin and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(RNS) Nearly 35 years after conservatives launched a takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, a new divide over Calvinism threatens to upend the nation's largest Protestant denomination. (RNS) ...

Dr Alexander S Waugh rightly corrects my typing error placing John Calvin (1509-1564) in the seventeenth rather than the sixteenth century. He was, in fact, a ...