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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Calvin, a leading Protestant Reformer ... Commenting on the law in his magnum opus, The Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin writes, First, indeed, we should be entirely filled ...

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 ...

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.

On July 10, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, in which John ... in France, Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where in 1536 he published the first edition of his seminal work Institutes of the ...