The 500th birthday of John Calvin has gotten me thinking about the influence the 16th-century Reformer has had on my own life and thought. I grew up in a subculture immersed in Calvinism. My family ...

Where, in other words, is Christianity going? When people today hear the name John Calvin, they think mainly of predestination – the controversial idea that God has foreordained everything that will ...

An interview with author James K.A. Smith: Calvinism, as you say in the intro to the book, seems to be hip again. Time Magazine recently named Calvinism as one of “10 ideas changing the world right ...

On the face of it, it does not seem difficult to state the contradictions that beset a doctrine of predestination. An absolute sense that God determines the outcome of our lives cuts the nerve of ...

Calvinists, says one Calvinist, misunderstand some of their history and theology. A review of ‘Ten Myths About Calvinism.’ Type "Calvinism" into any web browser and you're likely to find multiple ...

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 ...

A small book from long ago will make a big impact at Calvin College for years to come. The college's H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies recently purchased a copy of "Congrégation sur l’élection ...

The title of Benjamin M. Friedman’s “Religious Influences on Economic Thinking” is dully academic but eye-catching all the same. It is a slim book, some of it a restatement of the argument the author ...