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 ...

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 outsiders ...

The Institutes of the Christian Religion (Institutio Christianae religionis) is John Calvins seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western world and still widely ...

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 ...

Justification remains a controversial doctrine. New Testament scholars are reexamining Paul’s teaching. Lutherans and Roman Catholics have produced a Joint Declaration on the topic. The excerpts from ...

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 ...

It is something of a truism in Reformation scholarship to refer to Huldrych Zwingli as the "forgotten" reformer or as the "third man" after Martin Luther and John Calvin. There are many reasons why ...

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 ...