In the last post we noted Calvin's strong view of God's grace. Such grace, when it is truly saving grace, does not merely prompt or assist or suggest to a person what he or she needs to do. It renews ...

When I was in graduate school, I wryly referred to myself as the most Reformed living human since John Calvin. To my surprise, this assertion did not win me friends or influence people. A cradle ...

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 ...

One reason for thinking in a fresh way about Calvin is that 2009 marks the 500th anniversary of his birth. Why is it worth celebrating this anniversary? Calvin is, by any standards, a "world figure", ...

Calvin’s double predestination represents an outcome of the theological evolution in Western Christianity. Unlike Eastern Orthodoxy which draws on a wide range of Church Fathers, Western Christianity ...