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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...