The man behind the nameBorn 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 ...

John Calvin dies. 1611. King James Version of Bible published. In this and later editions, Calvin developed the doctrines of predestination, or election.

English professor James Vanden Bosch donned the traditional black garb to play John Calvin on the reformer's 502nd birthday. Read his speech and a short Q&A about the responsibilities of playing John ...

John Calvin is a seemingly normal 24-year-old. He poses in selfies on Facebook and chats with his friends over Snapchat. He lives in Edmonton, Canada, and attends church regularly.

The greatest witness of John Calvin, outlined brightly by Rodríguez, is that of a man who came to his commitments—to sacrificial hospitality, to personal righteousness at great cost, to the ...

John Calvin does not always receive the best press. He is often portrayed as an archconservative and an ideological father of capitalism. Most recently, the topic of Calvinism returned to public ...

Inside a KCK church on Friday, the family of John Calvin stood and wept. It’s bad enough that they recently learned 56-year-old Calvin is dying of colon cancer, but he will likely die in prison.

John Calvin strides through the Western imagination as a figure of certainty – willing to abandon the church of his youth, burn a heretic, and proclaim double predestination that consigned millions to ...

Calvin and Hobbes" turned 30 years old on Wednesday. Here is what you didn't know about the iconic comic strip. ... LEFT: Portrait of John Calvin, French theologian and religious reformer.

John Calvin became not only the greatest theological genius of the Reformation, second only to Luther, but also, as French historian Émile G. Léonard dubbed him, "the founder of a new civilization." ...