Reformer’s 500th birthday draws out diverse cast of admirers. Known as a divisive theologian, John Calvin has become a unifying figure 500 years after his birth on July 10, 1509. Already several ...

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 ...

You may find members of Presbyterian and Reformed churches more theologically engaged than usual these days. This year marks the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth. I decided to observe the ...

Calvin professor of philosophy and Worship Institute research fellow James K.A. Smith has written a new book called Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition. At just 160 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

How best to understand Calvin on the 500th anniversary of his birth? Start with this new biography by a professor at Yale Divinity School who offers a nuanced, flesh-and-blood portrait of a man shaped ...

For the non-Calvinists or anti-Calvinists among us who may worry that the current issue of WORLD has several articles about John Calvin, be not afraid: It happens only once every 500 years. July 10 ...