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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...