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 ...

Black theology began elsewhere. Henry McNeal Turner proclaimed “God is a Negro,” rejecting depictions of a white Christ.^5 James Cone declared “God is Black,” meaning God takes sides with the ...

Bernard Cottret set out to replace the commonplace, static picture most people have of John Calvin as "a doctrinaire divider, attached to his own ideas to the point of fanaticism" with "a portrait in ...

Labor of love brings the Reformation’s seminal work into the Middle East. Most of the theological writings that shaped Western society over the last 500 years cannot be found on Middle Eastern ...

Calvinism, properly speaking, is a term which belongs to the Continent rather than to Great Britain. At the same time as John Calvin was leading the work of the Reformation in Switzerland and France, ...

John Calvin strides through the Western imagination as a figure of certainty – willing to abandon the church of his youth, burn a heretic, and proclaim double predestination that consigned millions to ...

For many in our culture, the word "Calvinism" is synonymous with a grim form of legalistic religion that chiefly focuses on the doctrine of predestination -- the idea that God has determined from ...

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 ...

In this article, I discuss the Protestant contribution to the modern concept of autonomy on the basis of an analysis of John Calvin's moral theology. I show that Calvin affirms our incapacity to know ...

One of the most well-known and instrumental of the Protestant Reformers. French-born, he lived most of his life in Geneva, Switzerland. There, through his writings and political involvements, he ...