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 ...

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 ...

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 Cauvin ...

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 ...

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 ...

Geneva last week was a blaze of flags; trumpets sounded in the sun-drenched parks, and fireworks sprayed the night sky. Many a tourist assumed that the celebrations had something to do with the Big ...