Born July 10, 1509 in Noyon, France, Jean Calvin was raised in a staunch Roman Catholic family. The local bishop employed Calvin’s father as an administrator in the town’s cathedral. The father, in ...

Calvin’s centers and institutes provide the time and space for scholars to ... The Henry Meeter Center offers extensive research collections on John Calvin, Calvinism, the Reformation, and Early ...

GENEVA — John Calvin ... newly Protestant Geneva. But Calvin was soon banished again because authorities found his ideas were too radical. He returned in 1541 after receiving assurances of ...

GENEVA — John Calvin ... newly Protestant Geneva. But Calvin was soon banished again because authorities found his ideas were too radical. He returned in 1541 after receiving assurances of ...

Despite deep divisions over the man and his doctrines, the Christian heirs of the Protestant Reformation have always considered John Calvin ... lie in the Institutes, Calvin’s multi-decade ...

Institutes excerpts are from Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion, translated by Ford Lewis Battles (Westminster John Knox Press, 1960) ...

John Calvin was arguably even more influential ... he is condemned.” (Institutes, IV, 11:2) 2. Calvin believed that there was no salvation outside the Church: “Beyond the pale of the Church ...

With his brother and sister and two friends, John Calvin ... her two children. By 1541 Calvin's reputation had spread: he wrote three other books and revised his Institutes.